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Beans

Butterfly wings from Fritz Müller.

preserved specimens

The Curious Task of Digitizing Darwin’s Beans and Butterflies

From squeaky beans to arsenic scares, conservation is full of surprises.

Diana Hubbell September 22, 2021

Chef Brian Yazzie says your pantry is likely full of indigenous American ingredients, such as canned corn and dried beans.

The Chef Bringing Native American Flavors to Communities in Quarantine

For Brian Yazzie, the COVID-19 pandemic evokes a history of smallpox, European colonization, and indigenous resilience.

Reina Gattuso March 27, 2020

Hoppin' John

This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.

Kapeshuna Beans

In the desert of La Guajira, Colombia, locally grown cowpeas hold spiritual meaning for the Wayúu tribe.

Frejon

This thick bean soup is a Good Friday tradition for Nigeria's Afro-Brazilian community.

Nan-e Nokhodchi

Thank garbanzo beans for the melt-in-your-mouth texture of these Persian cookies.

Kacang Pool

A “pool of beans” makes a hearty breakfast in Johor, Malaysia.

Stink beans with shitake mushrooms and pork.

Stink Beans

These Southeast Asian legumes are famed for their lasting funk and deliciously nutty flavor.

Zunda

Flavoring everything from dumplings to mochi, this sweet and salty paste shows another side to edamame.

Feast of the Hunters' Moon

The autumn event re-creates meals shared by French settlers and Native Americans at an 18th-century fort.

The dumpling gets boiled inside a hickory leaf.

Cherokee Bean Bread

Bakers delicately wrap this corn-and-bean dumpling in hickory leaves before boiling.

Boston Baked Beans

In the 1920s, confectioners thought the public wanted candy that looked like legumes—and they were right.

Bean Pie

This slightly sweet dessert is a staple in some Black American Muslim communities.

Pythagoras, pictured here next to a fava bean plant, might have had good reason to fear them.

Why Beans Were an Ancient Emblem of Death

Fava beans can be lethal.

Anne Ewbank May 25, 2018

Nattō

These pungent fermented soybeans are coated in probiotic slime.

Bean soup has been served in the Senate dining room since time immemorial.

Senate Bean Soup

A bland but storied soup is always on the menu in the U.S. Senate.