If you didn’t know beans are serious stuff, you just don’t know beans!
Beans have been disparaged for years as “poor food.” Worse, during periods of economic boom and rapid urbanization, culinary leaders neglect legumes and pulses as remnants of the peasant past.
Back to the Future
Today beans are enjoying a fresh wave of popularity. In 2020, as the world locked down in the face of Covid, many families rediscovered or even discovered for the first time! how to prepare meals from dried beans. The warm reception for Washington Post food writer, Joe Yonan’s well-timed cookbook,
Cool Beans, is a sign of this sea change.