The Washington Post, July 19th, 2007
It has been a long time since lettuce just came in green. Now there are red ones, too, such as Merlot and Outredgeous, and they just keep getting redder at the tips. Some are even spangled with red spots. I first saw the variety called Freckles about a dozen years ago -- a green romaine that looked as if it had been spattered with maroon paint -- and I thought it was gorgeous, dramatic. "It looks diseased," my husband said. Gerard Manley Hopkins would have agreed with me. His poem "Pied Beauty," which begins "Glory be to God for dappled things" celebrates "whatever is fickle, freckled." Had he...
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