Heirloom tomatoes had their moment, so now it’s the beans’ turn. The food: What makes a food heirloom? It’s the history behind the plant; heirloom varieties come from seeds that have been passed down ...

I’m several hundred heirloom bean varieties deep in the latest seed list I’m browsing, description by description, with no plan to come up for air anytime soon. There are nearly 1,600 types of beans ...

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Stroll through the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market on Saturday mornings, and you'll inevitably see a crowd of people running their fingers through a tub of dried beans at the Rancho Gordo stand. It's just ...

Q In a gift shop, I found heirloom beans called Jacob's Cattle Beans. I cooked them, liked them, but now about 4 cups are left in the refrigerator. Any thoughts for a main-dish salad? It's hotter than ...

Explore heirloom beans in Maine and meet rehabilitated orphan bear cubs in New Hampshire. This week, host and Yankee senior editor Amy Traverso meets Maine farmers who are preserving delicious ...

Rancho Gordo beans have always been cool. Thomas Keller was one of the first chefs to pick them up at the farmers market, with many restaurants following over the years. The Napa-based company helped ...

NAPA, Calif. (KGO) -- Among the foods trending recently in California are, beans. We're not talking about the kind you find in a can, these are heirloom beans. More chefs are adding all types of beans ...

The new varieties released by UC Davis include seed coat patterns and cooking quality that are desired by chefs and home cooks. The new varieties combine these characteristics with improved ...

The walls of Rancho Gordo New World Specialty Foods are lined with vivid, dramatic Mexican film posters, but the real stars in this new Napa shop are beans, humble, healthy and heirloom. “I don’t have ...