Article: Better-Than-Ever Baked Beans; A Fresh Look at an Old Favorite

Beans are not a food about which most epicures wax grandiloquent. But without them there would be no French cassoulet, no Brazilian feijoada, no Hoppin' John, and none of that Yankee mainstay, baked beans.

Low in fat, beans are high in protein, fiber and complex carbohydrates, and like other plants, are entirely free of cholesterol. There is evidence that they have anticarcinogenic properties and the power to lower cholesterol.

Baked beans are, of course, a venerable New England tradition. They've been cooked in a hole in the ground for a lot longer than they've been baked in a crock in the oven. The Indians simmered beans in a stone-lined pit, adding maple syrup for sweetness and lumps ...

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