'Spinach Lettuce' comes from a multi-year collaboration between chef Dan Barber and lettuce breeder Bill Waycott.
Salad lovers may no longer need to choose between spinach and romaine.
Spinach Lettuce, a new hybrid between the two greens, combines the beloved crispness of romaine with the dense vitamin content of spinach, producing a bitter green leaf packed with phytonutrients like carotenoids, flavonoids, and vitamin K.
Grown in partnership with Norwich Meadows Farms, which is based in upstate New York, Spinach Lettuce is the result of a multi-year collaboration between lettuce breeder Bill Waycott and chef Dan Barber, founder of Row 7 Seed Company. On the balmy morning of May 31, New Yorkers sampled the leaves of the new plant at Manhattan's Union Square Market.
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