1.   Asians eat lettuce wraps year round.

2.   At the Big Bowl restaurant in Chicago, Bruce Cost, one of the owners, makes mushroom-and-scallion lettuce wraps.

3.   Lettuce wraps are turning up on restaurant menus these days.

4.   Lettuce wraps seem especially appropriate in summer, when sticky weather calls for something cool, light and unfussy.

5.   Lettuce wraps are also served.

6.   When the dish is served, the waiter explains the procedure for rolling the lettuce wraps up and eating the bundles out of hand.