[Sca-cooks] Beans, beans...

[Terry Decker]

Fasoli (phaseolus) refers to kidney beans.  Any bean that looks like a 
kidney, not just the red ones.  The word appears in Pliny, so it obviously 
applied to a type of legume before the New World beans arrived.  Most of the 
authorities I've checked believe that phaseolus refers to members of genus 
Vigna although some suggest that it may have originally been some form of 
fava bean.

If you look up the painting "The Bean Eater," you'll find the poor felolow 
eating black-eyed peas.

Bear

>i thought they were red beans???
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> Jaime