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...For the romaine, also cut the leaves into bite-sized pieces. Wash the leaves well and then leave to soak in iced water for half an hour....
...Traditionally, the family-owned Rago Group used about 800 cubic metres of water per hectare per year to irrigate the rocket that it grows, along with other leafy greens such as baby spinach, chard and romaine...
...Leaves of a crisp variety of lettuce, such as little gem, cos or romaine, blanched briefly and then refreshed in cold water, make a bright, perky garnish for a noodle soup....
...There was olive-oil mash that could stop your heart quicker than a .30 calibre and parmesan-dressed romaine that could restart it....
...April 9; further information and tickets here ‘Dior habille les nuits’ (Dior Dresses the Night), Palais des Congrès Giorgio Mancini’s Nuit Dansée and Angelin Prejlocaj’s Nuit Romaine will be danced by...
...Here to Romaine George Parker, Seb Payne and Laura Hughes have written a brilliant piece about Liz Truss’s 49-day premiership....
...At the Vaison Danses summer festival in Vaison-la-Romaine, south-eastern France, which staged a special tribute to her this month, she led her dancers in a playful improvisation midway through the bows:...
...Similarly, La Romaine Editions and Design Storey work with makers to design exclusive limited run collections for their audiences, adding an air of exclusivity to their curatorial role....
...Romaine lettuce, basil and bok choy bursting from the stones. Welcome to the future of farming....
...“It doesn’t make any sense to bring romaine [lettuce] from California to New York,” says Jose Andres, the Spanish chef who is acclaimed for enlivening Washington DC’s staid restaurant scene and admired for...
...Oster hardly glances at the menu before selecting the Caesar salad — shredded romaine, radicchio, creamy dressing, focaccia crisps and parmesan — with salmon, “light on the dressing”....
...Romaine lettuce, basil, bok choy and flowers burst from the stones. “I was so surprised, seeing this for the first time,” Huong said over a patchy line from her mountainous farm town....
...Not little gem, not romaine, not iceberg. In fact, no brand of lettuce. That fluorescent green stuff your grandad used to grow with big soft leaves and absolutely no element of watery “crispness”....
...It is the perfect combination of healthy ingredients, chopped finely enough to be eaten without disturbing one’s make-up or getting papped with seven inches of romaine leaf dangling out of your perfect teeth...
...In her youth, the Great Beast, the notorious society Satanist Aleister Crowley, once proposed to her and she moved in lesbian circles in Paris, becoming close to the American painter Romaine Brooks....
...Same with the apple sauce and the “salad” of two beefsteak tomato slices, cut from the middle of the tomato and placed on romaine lettuce leaf tops, all served separately. The peas were the exception....
...Above all, the love of the lemon, the love of the oil and the love of the leaf: crunchy romaine, flopsy round, lovely lollo and all the wondrous bitternesses from that expansive family of chicories and radicchios...
...Meanwhile, proteins such as tuna, chicken, cheese, shrimp, crab and lobster were bound with abundant mayonnaise and designated “salads”, scooped like ice cream from the bowl and served in a romaine leaf...
...Dressed in white — baggy trousers, T-shirt and headwrap — the sheikh drops the hot flaking aubergine on to a silver platter laden with fish from the Tigris, whole romaine lettuce, trailing spring onions,...
...An up-to-date example: “On April 10, the Centers for Disease Control warned against eating any romaine lettuce from anywhere in the country, fearing it might be contaminated with E. coli . . ....
...His only alibi is that of his wife Romaine, a German actress, so her testimony is crucial and her apparently slender understanding of legal proceedings a concern to his lawyers....
...We dither over the sides — the white asparagus is not in season — and settle for slow-roasted red peppers and fresh Romaine lettuce hearts. The wine arrives....
...Unusual vertical figures with luxuriant folds of flesh — “Seated Nude”, “La Belle Romaine” — arrest us with startling arabesque poses....
...Tomatoes, snap peas, leeks, romaine and other greens took up beds in the wild flower meadow on one side of the hill, while Jean-Luc’s beehives — three of them, 40,000 bees in each one — had their own, buzzing...
...Other papers blamed restaurants for hoarding the scarce leaves, prompting the rationing of what ordinary shoppers can buy: “Romaine calm!” urged The Times....
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