If you’re not from the Middle East, the idea of eating a bowl of stewed fava beans for breakfast might not strike your fancy, at least at first glance. But plenty of cultures start their day with ...

Preparing fresh fava beans is worth the effort. (Ben Mims / Los Angeles Times) Preparing fresh fava beans is tedious, I won’t lie. But if you tackle the process separately from cooking with them for a ...

MOST PEOPLE YOU meet on the street probably won’t list fava beans as a major component of their diet. However, if you were walking down the streets of ancient Egypt, Greece or Rome, everybody would be ...

Washington D.C. is perhaps the pre-eminent international soccer city in America, drawing the highest World Cup ratings in the U.S. in 2014. So even without the US Men’s National Team this summer, ...

Every cook has certain tedious kitchen tasks that he or she doesn’t mind, along with those that make him want to scream. I can stand in front of a pot of bubbling beans for hours, stirring away ...

Answering a popular reader question, with a few tips and recipes. By Tejal Rao Most mornings, a ruby-throated hummingbird hunts in the shade outside my office window, vibrating noisily as he zigzags ...

Beans are a pantry staple, serving as a wallet-friendly solution to boosting your meals with plant-based protein and nutrients. Among the bean family, fava beans have been celebrated as one of the ...

Fava beans not only signal that spring has arrived; its short season reminds you that life is fleeting, so you better grab it while you can. Fresh fava beans enjoy a brief but tasty life right now.

Preparing fresh fava beans is tedious, I won’t lie. But if you tackle the process separately from cooking with them for a meal, you’ll find the work worth the effort. Most traditional preparation ...