Article: Lessons in salad making; preparing the greens.

Lessons in salad making: preparing the greens The first step in making a great salad is to prepare the greens. This process is easy for youngsters to manage, and it provides a good lesson for aspiring cooks.

The basic routine is pretty much the same for all green--they need to be rinsed, dried, and crisped. But there are also specific ways of handling different types of greens. Here, we focus on leafy greens that most cooks use frequently: lettuces (such as iceberg, butter, red-leaf, romaine), spinach, chicories (including Belgian endive, curly endive, escarole, frisee, and radicchio), and parsley. The procedures can also be applied to any other similarly shaped ...

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