Do You Love Iceberg Lettuce?
some fancy-pants chefs love iceberg lettuce, too. I'm not ashamed to admit that I love iceberg lettuce. It's cool, it's crisp, and it's a perfect foil for blue cheese dressing.
Don't get me wrong. I love a fresh, peppery arugula salad picked that morning from somebody's garden. But I don't much care for wilted organic arugula grown 3,000 miles from my house and picked two weeks before it finds its way into my hands. I also hate iceberg lettuce that is more brown than light green with tons of droopy outer leaves. C'mon, admit it. You like iceberg lettuce, too.
Here's a great blue cheese dressing recipe from the late Jamie Shannon (and Ti Adelaide Martin) of Commander's Palace (Are there others out there? Hell, I even like Marie's, though the best commercially available blue cheese dressing is from Point Reyes Cheese.
