SC - Fava beans?? (and thanks)

[Decker, Terry D.]

> As far as I know, "black eyed peas" and "cowpeas" are new world beans.
> They
> may have been introduced to colonial america by the slave trade, but
> several other new world foods like sweet potatoes and peanuts were as well
> (amazing how things move so quickly, no? The porteugese see 'em here, and
> bring 'em home and use them and next thing you know, the Africans are
> using
> them, and then they come back home...) Anything with the genus Phaseolus
> is. 
> 
> 
> --AM, who is very angry with Mr Vehling for interpreting Apicius as being
> for "french beans". Sheesh! 
> 
Cowpeas are Vigna unguiculata and are of Old World origin.

Bear
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