num_pages: 400
description: Has there ever been a more generous ingredient than the bean? Down-home yet haute  soul-satisfyingly hearty valued versatile deeply delectable healthful and inexpensive to boot theres nothing a bean cant doand nothing that Crescent Dragonwagon cant do with beans. From old friends like chickpeas and pintos to rediscovered heirloom beans like rattlesnake beans and teparies from green beans and fresh shell beans to peanuts lentils and peas Bean by Bean is the definitive cookbook on beans. Its a 175-plus recipe cornucopia overflowing with information kitchen wisdom lore anecdotes and a zest for good food and good times.Consider the lentil to take one example. Discover it first in a delicious slather Lentil Tapenade. Then in half a dozen soups including Sahadis Lebanese Lentil Soup with Spinach Kerala-Style Dahl and Crescents Very Very Best Lentil Mushroom &amp; Barley Soup. It then turns up in Marinated Lentils De Puy with Greens Baked Beets Oranges &amp; Walnuts. Plus theres Jamaica Jerk-Style Lentil-Vegetable Patties Ethiopian Lentil Stew and Lentil-Celeriac Skillet Sauce. Do the same for black beansfrom Tex-Mex Frijoles Dip to Feijoada Vegetariana to Mayas Magic Black Beans with Eggplant &amp; Royal Rice. Or shell beansNewly Minted Puree of Fresh Favas Baked Limas with Rosy Sour Cream Edamame in a Pod. And on and onfrom starters and soups to dozens of entrees. Even Peanut Butter Cup Brownies and Red Bean Ice Cream.
language: English
title: Bean By Bean: A Cookbook
publisher: Workman Publishing Company