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Lesser Salad Vegetables

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Leafy Salad Vegetables

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This chapter deals with vegetables that are less well-known and less often-used in salads than those discussed in earlier chapters. A few are used fairly extensively by some segments of the population. Others are more popular elsewhere than in the United States.

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    Edward J. Ryder Ph.D.

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Ryder, E.J. (1979). Lesser Salad Vegetables. In: Leafy Salad Vegetables. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9699-4_7

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