A Treatise on Salad: John Evelyn’s Book on the Virtues of Cultivated Greens*

*This is a translated, slightly expanded version of my recent post on the Herzog August Library’s official blog. John Evelyn (1620–1706) is probably best known today as a diarist. Alongside his friend and frequent correspondent Samuel Pepys, he remains one of the most important witnesses to life in 17th-century England. But Evelyn was more than just a chronicler - he was also a practical thinker, a hands-on experimenter, and in many ways an early “how-to”-author. His impressive body of work ...