Originally a Provençal description of a salad of miscellaneous wild leaves and herbs, then adopted for mixed salad leaves planted together and harvested while very young, this term is now most familiar as a description used for supermarket packs of assorted baby salad leaves of different types, usually including lamb’s lettuce (mâche), dandelion leaves, chicory (frisée), radicchio, fennel, sorrel and rocket.
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