Most people don't know how to cook dried beans. Their knowledge of legumes doesn't extend past that old playground rhyme. How’d it go? Bean, beans, they’re good for your heart. The more you eat, the ...

Yum, beans! My shopping cart is regularly filled with a large variety of produce and cans of beans. Lentils, black beans, chick peas, kidney beans, and black eyed peas are great staple foods to keep ...

A POT OF BEANS: Cooking doesn’t get much more basic than that. Beans might be cute (especially pretty heirloom varieties), and well-made beans make a tasty, cheap side dish. But that seems to be about ...

On a chilly, Fall day, these baked beans combine pumpkin and apple for a hearty side dish from Aube Giroux of the Kitchen Vignettes blog. To cook the beans, you can either simmer them on your stovetop ...

Skip straight to cooking instead. There is a lot of bean cooking lore out there. Some of it good advice, and some of it bad.

There are few ingredients more economical than dried beans. Even if you’re mail-ordering $8 per pound heirloom varieties from companies like Rancho Gordo, you’re still only spending around $1 per ...

The Village Idiot in Los Angeles serves a beans and bitter greens dish that reader Chris Shellan from Atwater Village describes as “incredible — rich and meaty, yet they swore they didn’t use any meat ...

As a pantry staple, you can’t beat dried beans. They’re cheap, store well for a long time, and are filling and hearty. But the thing is, I just don’t have the patience for them. I often get the ...

You might have noticed that some of the longstanding disputes in cooking are dualities, one side pitched as a better choice against one other: unsalted or salted butter, for example, or seasoned cast ...