[Sca-cooks] Beans, beans...

[Terry Decker]

Prior to 1492, fasoli are Vignas such as black-eyed peas and yard long 
beans.  The word was expanded to include the New World beans.  BTW, 
black-eyed peas are still fasoli.

Bear

> Also in the 14th C. Tuscan cookbook are recipes for "fasoli", which is 
> "beans", but since most of what we call "beans" are New World, and favas 
> have their own name, what does "fasoli" mean?
> -- 
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