It's Only Good When Fresh, so Experiment While You've Got It

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HERE'S trivia you've probably never thought about: Lettuce is one of the few vegetables you can't preserve. You can't get lettuce in a can, or frozen lettuce, or dried lettuce. You have to eat it fresh.

I (Tara) never gave it much thought, either, until I force-fed my family dozens of pounds of lettuce and then found out it can - allegedly - get you high. (If you read our columns on poppy seeds or nutmeg, you know where this is going. Incidentally, if there's a food without a hallucinogenic or aphrodisiacal claim, we haven't found it.)

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It's Only Good When Fresh, so Experiment While You've Got It

In my defense, I thought I was being frugal. Every gardener knows that when you have a bumper crop of something, you enlist the following procedure:

1. Eat it. When Rob started refusing the endless salads, ...

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