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Article: Dressing Up Crisp, Fresh Green Beans in Style
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 3, 1994
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Green beans used to be an afterthought. You'd go to the jolly
ho-ho-ho Green Giant aisle of the supermarket and buy a can. Later
you'd heat up the contents to have something colorful to move around
on the dinner plate next to the hamburger and mashed potatoes.
These green beans (string beans, if you prefer) were tasteless,
boring and utterly uncontroversial. You'd eat them or not, depending
on how argumentative you were feeling, because mom said they were
good for you.
The rule was to cook them until they surrendered. It's a fate
that sometimes befalls even fresh green beans, as I can tell you from
a recent family dinner. A certain relative - who shall remain
nameless to protect the ...