1936 W. Price S. Sea Adventure 240 In the experimental farms of Yap and Palau, the following vegetables, imported from Japan, have been coddled until they have been made to feel perfectly at home in the tropics;..napa (a cousin of lettuce),..mitsuba[etc.].

1979 Chicago Tribune 15 Feb. 21 A third Chinese cabbage, is also known as napa. It grows in a wider, shorter stalk than some of the others, and has slightly curly, pale green leaves.

1979 Chicago Tribune 15 Feb. 21 The cabbages, celery cabbage, napa cabbage and Chinese cabbage, are often confused and their names used interchangeably.

1987 Harrowsmith Nov. 121/3 Napa is Chinese cabbage and is generally available in large supermarkets or Oriental food stores.

1993 Toronto Life July 82/3 Slender sheets of beef, napa cabbage, sprouts, baby corn, bamboo and transparent noodles in robust, soy-enriched chicken stock.

1999 Food & Wine Jan. 76/3 Napa cabbage, Tianjin bok choy in Chinese, is cooling..but the addition of warming ginger and garlic makes this a dish of great harmony.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. iii. 34 (heading) Napa wine.

1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 157 Several glasses of Napa Valley wine.

1991 Decanter Aug. 14/1 Not only a great connoisseur, and about the best taster I know, but also a notable Napa wine grower.

1999 Newsweek 29 Nov. 77/2 In America, sparkling wine can be called champagne if the place of origin is on the label, as in ‘Napa Valley champagne’.

1977 C. Fadiman & S. Aaron Wine Buyers' Guide 157 One of the wisest investments is a 1973 Napa..acquired young, while the cost is low.

1997 Wine Mar. (California Suppl.) 8/3 The Cabernets of that time [sc. 1978] were the ones that pushed Napa into the world scene: big, powerful wines with..a lot of flavour.

2000 BookPage Oct. 34/3 Blanchard..‘had difficulty cutting short a debate over the virtues of Napa versus Bordeaux’.