Stroke your Lettuce: it has feelings too

HUG ME………A BRITISH researcher with a doctorate in watercress, is advising other salad fans to stroke their lettuces to make them taste nicer.

“I’m completely passionate about creating the best possible salad” says Steve Rothwell, a farmer and self-declared “leaf boffin” in the Daily Express.

The salad-crazy doctor, who got his unusual PhD from Bath University, said stroking growing lettuceleaves makes them bigger and tastier and glossier.

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About Gina Mallet

Gina Mallet is the author of Last Chance to Eat, The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World, which won the 2005 James Beard Award for writing on food, an account of the lost world of eating. She is a former theatre critic, and now the restaurant critic for the National Post of Canada.
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