[Sca-cooks] Beans, beans, the musical fruit....

[Alex Clark]

At 12:40 PM 8/4/2004 -0400, Christianna wrote:
>         I'm working on lesson plans for nutrition classes (various age 
> ranges).
>I'm on the Beans segment just now, and have a list of beans to discuss:
>aduki, anasazi, black-eyed peas, black turtle, fava, garbanzo or chickpeas,
>great northern, kidney, lentils, lima, mung, navy, pinto, red, soybean,
>split peas.

It's worth mentioning that some of these are really the same species, at 
least great northern, kidney, navy, and pinto. Another member of this 
species is the good old green bean or string bean.

>         This got me to thinking, maybe I could mention other foods that 
> we know
>that we don't eat in the bean form necessarily, but are beans nevertheless.
>So far I've come up with cocoa, coffee, carob and tamarind, but I will
>probably leave tamarind out.  What other bean products do we use that we
>don't see as a bean?  (I've got all the soybean products covered.)

Rowan Atkinson.

Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Zydeco. (fruity music?)

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans.

-- 
Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon