Haven Greens: How A Canadian Is Taking a Bite Out Of America’s Monopoly Of Our Dinner Tables
Jay Willmot knows what he does not like and “bad lettuce” tops the list, something he developed a distaste for two decades ago during his student days at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
For a young commerce major living on his own and looking to eat somewhat healthily, disappointment was reliably found in grocery store produce sections that were, and remain, dominated by lettuce imports, typically grown beneath the hot, California sun in a region of the United States food industry professionals refer to as the “salad bowl.”
Willmot’s longstanding beef with such lettuce will ring a bell among Canadian salad lovers who, when they get home from the grocery store with, say, a tub of leafy California greens, crack the cellophane packaging and register a faint, unmistakable whiff of rot. Dig deeper and camouflaged somewhere within it will be a slimy leaf, if not an entire clump of spoiled greens.
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