I love beans. I love ham and beans. I love baked beans on toast. I love charro beans. I love smoked turkey and beans. I love pasta and beans. I love wieners and beans. I love bacon and beans. And I especially like when those bean dishes are made, from scratch, with dried beans.
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Beans. In Mexico they’re one of the “three sisters”. Along with corn and squash, they’ve satisfied most of Mexico’s hunger for centuries. And, though rice has moved in on the sisters in the last few decades, beans are still an all-important food in my adopted country. In “Nuestro Mero Mole”, probably the best thing ever written about the history of Mexican cuisine, Jesus Flores y Escalante says that, in Mexico, you can find beans somewhere in 70% of all dishes. — Don Day: There were beans, beans, as big as…
If you look at the so-called blue zone areas, the areas around the world with the greatest longevity, the most people that live over a hundred, the one thing that all those areas share is legumes, actually, they eat bean-rich diets, and so we’re talking about the Okinawan Japanese, who are getting soy beans in the diet, or blue zone in Loma Linda, California, they’re all eating beans as an important component of their diet. People see beans as boring and nobody wants to talk about encouraging people to eat beans, but they’re so healthy, and they’re so versatile, so inexpensive. The top beans that I recommend are black beans. The darker, the more nutrients they pack. So you wanna have black beans on a regular basis, and you can have that as a black bean burger, you can have that in a burrito, in a wrap. Make a large batch, four to six cups of beans on a Sunday, just put ’em on your counter, plug it in, cook it, and then eat off of that for the rest of the week. You can make two to three different types of beans on a Sunday. — Prescription: Nutrition Episode 3 – Spilling the Beans by Michael Greger M.D. FACLM
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