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• n  southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
• n  dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads

• While federal officials warned against buying fresh spinach, one distributor issues a recall.
• It was sort of an eat-your-spinach approach," Obama conceded when I asked him about the stony silence that greeted his address.
• One cup of spinach contains just 41 calories and no fat, so you needn't worry about any unsightly bulges in your forearms or anywhere else.

• spinach plant
• prickly-seeded spinach
• Spinacia oleracea

News & Articles

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• Greek food with help from the guys
  Plaki, baked fish; loukaniko, sausage; souzoukakia, meatballs; pastitsio, a macaroni dish; moussaka, eggplant with a meat filling; spanakopita, spinach pie; or dolmades, stuffed grape leaves.
  June 12, 2013 - The Steubenville Herald-Star
• THE RECIPE BOX: Spinach lasagna rolls worth the prep time
  Spinach lasagna rolls well worth the prep time. Popeye might have been a fan of eating spinach, but I'm not.
  June 11, 2013 - Newton Citizen
• Well: Spinach Soup Recipes for Health
  The Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman says soups can be a great way to draw out the flavors of spinach.        
  June 7, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Dr Andrew von Eschenbach in BusinessWeek
  What you saw with the spinach and certainly what you saw with the peanut butter, is when we see those signals we're going to act to protect the public health,von Eschenbach said.
• Jim Doyle in USA Today
  We are telling everyone to get rid of fresh bagged spinach right now. Don't assume anything is over,Doyle said.
• Robert Menendez in USA Today
  As the nation's fourth-largest spinach producer, spinach farming is a multimillion-dollar industry for the Garden State,Menendez said. "That is why we are imploring the FDA to move quickly in identifying the source of the infected...