Hollandia Produce Shows You How to Make Good Food Taste Great in Butter Lettuce 101 with Dani Spies

PRLog (Press Release) – May 19, 2008 – Hollandia Produce, the grower and shipper of the Live Gourmet family of living lettuces, has launched a streaming video with simple tips on how you can use living lettuce to enhance your cooking. The video titled “Hydroponic Butter Lettuce 101” is on the Live Gourmet website at http://www.livegourmet.com/guestchefkitchen.html.

Presented by Dani Spies, the video is a rich informational resource that answers many frequently asked questions about hydroponically grown butter lettuce. Dani shares her intimate knowledge of the benefits of cooking with natural ingredients while discussing the “101” basics of butter lettuce. Her advice includes tips on selection criteria, care and handling, health benefits, consumption and more:

•   When choosing your living lettuce, look for rich green leaves. You can also look at upper right-hand side of label for the “enjoy by” date that’s there to help promote freshness.
Living lettuce is mild and sweet with a buttery texture that almost melts in your mouth.
•   A great addition to any diet, butter lettuce is packed Vitamin A, Vitamin K, and like all leafy green veggies, is extremely cleansing and detoxifying.
•   Butter lettuce is really hearty and pairs up with a lot of different ingredients. Try using it in lettuce wraps as a low-carb substitute for traditional sandwiches.
•   The “mini-greenhouse” packaging protects leaves still attached to the root.

Live Gourmet guest chef Dani Spies is an ACSM Certified Fitness Trainer and Health Counselor and star of her own highly successful health and nutrition informational website that features her trademark Clean Simple, D lishes Living approach to food and recipes.

“We are very pleased to have Dani present our freshness message as her cooking style and philosophy of utilizing whole, natural, unprocessed foods to make good food taste great matches what we do at Hollandia Produce,” says Hollandia’s Director of Marketing Vincent Choate. “We look forward to working with Dani to expand awareness of our products in new and interesting ways.”

Live Gourmet living lettuces and watercress are merchandised by leading supermarkets, specialty retailers and health foods stores across America. Harvested with their roots intact Live Gourmet products are at their peak of freshness and alive with flavor.

Hollandia Produce Inc. can be reached at P.O. Box 1327, Carpinteria, CA 93013 For further information, please contact Vincent Choate, Director of Marketing at (866) LETTUCE or visit www.hollandiaproduce.com