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Gourmet Lettuce Grown Under Cover

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040527
Author:Barbara Damrosch

When we think of a secret garden, we usually think of roses and foxgloves behind an old, mossy wall in England, tended by the three horticulturally precocious children in Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel of that name. I have a secret garden too, but it's in the cupboard under the kitchen sink, and it's only there in wintertime.

Hiding next to the aluminum foil and Windex on a cold, gray day is my Belgian endive forcing bucket, crowned with crisp, juicy heads that resemble four-inch, pointed, white lettuces, there for the picking. These are just like the expensive ones found in the market but ...

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