Fresh borlotti beans, psychedelically beautiful and the traditional bean for minestrone making.
Beans! They're (part of) what's for breakfast! (In England.)
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We planned to go for a walk at twilight tonight, David and I, but when we stepped outside the dusk was chillier than we'd anticipated. "I wonder if I should go check the forecast," he said. "Yeah, you should," I...
With her bright red hair, chandelier earrings, hearty laugh, golf-course-green sweater, and edamame necklace, Crescent Dragonwagon, 59, is a cross between Lucille Ball and Carol Channing. You half expect her to break into song. What you get is a lot of stories, interesting tales that took her from Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y., the daughter of successful writer parents, to Eureka Springs, Ark. — “It has elements of Provincetown,” she says — where she ran a well-regarded restaurant and inn and hosted a young couple named Bill and Hillary Clinton (when they met, he had lost a bid for Congress).
Me, in my own kitchen, happily resting atop a BIIIIG container of the Chile Mole from Bean by Bean. This was at a little home book launch party when BbB first came out, in January of 2012.
Side by side... the original 1972 Bean Book ($2.45) and the 2012 Bean by Bean (technically a reissue but actually a wholly new book). http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0061S3VLK/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=1535523722_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1_rd_t=201_rd_i=0761132414_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER_rd_r=1KC8X9J210Z1YCGH380F
Mostly de-podded borlotti beans, waiting to be cooked to tender perfection.
The great send=off on ... was it revision two or three? ... on Bean by Bean. Waiting at the Fed Ex box at Bellows Falls, Vermont. Lordy, I work hard on my cookbooks! https://www.facebook.com/CrescentDragonwagonFearlessly
Being interviewed about beans for Lynne Rosetto Kaspar;s The Splendid Table on Bean by Bean...
Brave beautiful fearless beans, reaching for the sky!
Chef-owner at marvelous Matche, on Bainbridge Island, Washington, Gred Atkinson was opening the restaurant right when Bean by Bean came out. We did a wholly impromptu, fun, low-key party to celebrate both events, just inviting a few of the people in the food world in that corner of America to sample both our dishes and see the place. He is so generous.
There is green bean salad... and then there is Green Bean Salad as done at Ottolenghi, in London: green beans, roasted yellow peppers, toasted seeds (coriander, fennel, cumin, sunflower, sesame) , with chile, red kale, green onion, and lemon... So sprightly, surprises in each bite...
Meet Crescent Dragonwagon: What is a Crescent Dragonwagon you ask? Why a Crescent Dragonwagon is the amazing red haired woman at the center of our afternoon at Ducali Pizza & Bar in the North E…
Gado-Gado... Indonesian main dish salad: bed of spinach, cooked green beans, cooked sliced potatoes, cuke, wedge of tomato, halved hardboiled egg, bean sprouts tossed w lime & minced scallion, panfried tofu. Warm dressing: coconut milk-peanut butter base (w garlic, ginger, chile, sauteed shallot, brown sugar), Coarsely crushed rice crackers atop... All can be prepped in advance, then plates assembled right before.Perfect hot weather dinner, slightly exotic, comforting, vegan, just... so good.
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A bean blossom is a beautiful thing... These lavender one are on Kentucky Wionders...
This appeared in the New Yorker, during the period I was at work on Bean by Bean...
