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As you may have noticed, each recipe features the humble pea, one of the most quintessential spring vegetables.

Seeking succor when the world seems to be closing in on you is a quintessentially human habit.

This independent streak is quintessentially American, we like to tell ourselves, and it can expand to malignant extremes.

It does, however, always include two things: lettuce and peas, a quintessential spring pairing in my book.

And if you think of many of the battles being waged today — whether it's immigrant rights or Black rights or voter suppression — you could invoke quintessential American values for change.