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Article: Better-Than-Ever Baked Beans; A Fresh Look at an Old Favorite
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 15, 1989
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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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