Pickles and Tea Asian lettuce Tag

30 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Appetizers, Japanese, Salads, Vegetable

This week, I found this beautiful specimen in my vegetable and fruit box, vaguely listed as “Asian lettuce mix.” Dirt still clinging to its roots, the bunch showed off a surprising array of appendages--frills, jagged edges, flat ovals, all in shades of green transfiguring into...