lima beans Paula and Erin--Thanks Erin--food history

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Erin--I found these two links to be very interesting! Thanks for

posting them! I love to find out more about the origins of the food

we eat...and along those lines...

 

Both of my sons remember as they grew up and it was lunch time and

we were at home, that I would read to them from a large cookbook by

Jane Brody--something about good foods (circa late 80's and early

90's as my sons were born in 86 and 88). This was when they were

way young--preschool age. I just went to try to find that book to

get the title correct, and I think my older son has taken it from

the bookshelf to his college apartment. He was asking me about it

last time he was home, so I'm pretty sure that's where it went.

 

Anyway, part of this book had a big section of fruits and veggies

where you could look each of them up and find out where they

originated, the history of, and the nutrients contained. We got

into a pattern where my sons were actually wanting to try out new

fruits and veggies because each lunchtime I would read some new

stuff to them from the book about the particular fruit or veggie

they were eating that day. It was fun! And I guess it was pretty

effective because my son remembers it from way back. He's 20

now....LOL! That dirty rat! He took the cookbook! I told him I

wanted to keep it at home!

 

Paula

 

, " Erin " <truepatriot

wrote:

>

> I had to look this up too. Lima beans and butter beans are indeed

> synonymous, as Paula describes. However, fava beans are something

> different. They are pretty close though as the family and

subfamily

> (fabaceae faboidaea) are the same. The scientific classifications

> diverge at the tribe level (phasealeae - lima beans, vs vicieae -

> fava beans). Here's where I found this and much more:

>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_bean

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fava_bean

>

> Hope this helps you identify your dried beans.

>

>

> -Erin

> www.zenpawn.com/vegblog

>

>

> , " Sue " <hippiewildflower@>

> wrote:

> >

> > Are they also dried fava beans? Would the canned butter beans

be

> > fava's or large lima beans, I don't have my beans straight now.

> > Lima, fava and butter, I can't tell when they are dried.

> >

> > Sue

> >

> >

> > , " Paula " <paulakward@>

> > wrote:

> > >

> > > Erin--

> > >

> > > I LOVE butter beans (as they're called here sometimes)!

>