Most of us are used to cooking with the same old beans. Pintos, black beans, garbanzo beans, kidney beans -- these are all ...

Kidney beans are a type of "common bean" that share an ancestor with black beans, pintos, and navy beans. European explorers first discovered this ancestor bean in Peru and helped spread common ...

When nutrition researchers began studying common beans more closely, they uncovered something remarkable. Analysis of over 44,000 participants revealed that this simple pantry staple could ...

Another common bean concern is to salt or not to salt. There are advocates on both sides. Some say salt can make the skins tough, especially with older beans, yet America’s Test Kitchen ...

While red kidney beans are widely considered to have originated in Peru in 8000 B.C., they, along with other common beans like green beans and black beans, have been spread by migrating tribes for ...

Botanically, a green bean is the unripe fruit of a common bean, whose young pods we can eat; its inner seeds darken in color and its sugars turn to starch when left (or forgotten) on the bush or pole.

Tepary beans take longer to cook than most dried beans. Soak them, with enough water to cover by 4 inches for at least 12 hours and up to 24 hours. Drain, rinse and return to the pot with water to ...