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Melissa Clark’s green goddess roasted chicken. Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Spencer Richards.

Good morning. I took a walk through the flower district of Manhattan the other day, West 28th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The sidewalk was impossibly crowded with people and plants and cuttings. A seller picked up a pot of grass by its leaves and the pot dropped to the ground, revealing its roots. His colleague pointed this out. “Lost his shoes,” he said.