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Endive, or Chicory—This, for salad, takes the same place in winter that lettuce occupies in summer and when well grown is equally valuable. There are two very distinct varieties; … The other sort is the Escarole of the French, and is sweet in flavor, with a wider and flatter leaf, which comes earlier in the season but does not usually form so close a head, although it is preferable in flavor. … Sow twice, early in July and the first week in August. The broad leaf, (which is the Escarole,) for the first crop, and some White Curled for the second crop. A use of the French word in an English text.]

If there were a cure for Trumpiness, the Koch brothers would be sneaking it into Trump’s soft drinks the way Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agents allegedly sneak polonium-210 into journalists’ cocktails.

Jones himself presided in the kitchen, mincing truffles, mayonnaising lobster, booting waiters out the door with tray after tray of steaming savories and teeth-numbing sweets, […]