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Article: Locally Grown: Baked beans no dry tale
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- July 9, 2008
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I'd guess most people find it hard to be inspired by baked beans.
They are a side dish, never a main course. Their flavor is
comfortable, not exotic.
Some people have to avoid them, for rather embarrassing reasons,
and some people who don't, should.
Add to that the fact that there are many tasty commercial options
on the market - B&M and Bush's come to mind - and you'll come to
understand why cookbooks are not overflowing with recipes for this
summertime staple.
But baked beans hold a special place in my food memories. They
bring to mind long, sweaty summer days of harvest in South Dakota,
when the hot wind would sweep the prairie and the amber waves of
grain would fall to the windrower and ...