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Article: Revolution in your salad bowl. (ready-mix greens)
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- Sunset
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- April 1, 1994
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Ready-mix greens have arrived, and Western salads will never be quite the same
A salad mix of many kinds of tender leaves--needing only dressing--is one of th most practical convenience foods to hit the marketplace in recent years. But th idea of a salad mix is not a new one.
It started in and around Nice, in southern France, as mesclun. This regional specialty takes its name, meaning mix, from the local dialect, and is a combination of tender, early shoots of arugula, dandelion greens, lettuces, watercress, and chervil.
In the West, growing salad mix has long been popular with home gardeners (Sunse was telling how in the '50s). In the early '70s, when ...