Puntarelle is a variety of chicory grown for the Roman market; it is used primarily for raw salads. A head of the full-grown vegetable weighs about 1½ to 2pounds. A crown of long, slender, dark green outside leaves resembling those of catalogna chicory cradle within them a mass of white, twisted, hollow stalks. It is from these stalks that puntarelle salad, the crispest