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Default United States of Arugula

On Jun 27, 9:29*am, Cindy Fuller >
wrote:
> I picked up this book at a book swap last week. *It is an account of how
> the US went from meat and potatoes to where we are today. *The author
> tracks the careers of the Holy Trinity of Foodies (James Beard, Craig
> Claiborne, and Julia Child) from 1939 on, and intersperses various other
> characters along the way. *I just finished the chapter on Chez Panisse
> and its various alumni, and am about to read the "Righteous and Crunchy"
> chapter, which features "Diet for a Small Planet" and the Moosewood
> (from my beloved Ithaca).
>
> Arugula is an epithet in our household. *When something is too yuppie or
> pretentious, one of us will say, "That is just TOO arugula."


Arugula is nice in small amounts in a lettuce salad.

That made me think of this:
https://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/s...oductD isplay
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> Cindy
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--Bryan