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For lunch: Lettuces with radish and shallot vinaigrette and beets with cucumber, baba ghanoush and nasturtium, the flavors of the earth omnipresent through each bite of something pulled from the ground.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2022

Lettuces such as iceberg and romaine also should have decent heft to them to account for the water content.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2022

Lettuces, shishito peppers and cardoons are a given.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021

Lettuces, chicories, endives and all the fresh herbs do extremely well.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2011

If a Man may be allow'd to speak Truth at a Poetic Banquet, those you call Lettuces are Beets.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius