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Abra Beren's Buttermilk and Butter Lettuce Salad
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Abra Beren's Buttermilk and Butter Lettuce Salad

Good butter lettuce has large, delicate leaves and a deep, grassy flavor that’s usually found in darker greens.

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Aug 25, 2021
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Abra Beren's Buttermilk and Butter Lettuce Salad
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Excerpted with permission from Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection by Lindsay Gardner

I’ve never been much of a butter lettuce person, always finding it pleasant enough but not especially exciting on the palate. That is, until I started eating the butter lettuce we grow at Granor Farm. Good butter lettuce has…

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