SC - Mediterranean Feast

[Rhianwen]

> 
> Falafel with Fava?  I've always seen it as prepared with chickpeas/ceci
> beans/garbanzo beans.  (3 name for the same thing.)  Is yours a misprint, or
> where did you get Favas?  How are they different?

I get the fresh ones at a supermarket here occasionally, and dried 
ones at Middle Eastern markets when I can get them.  Favas are a 
broad white bean with a different flavor.  The recipe in the Roden 
book (Egyptian) calls for them, and I like them better than 
chickpeas.

Rhi