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Beans are a real go-to for me.

Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

Natto, Japanese ferment bean paste, will never cross my lips again. Spam Musubi, on the other hand, is something I love. I used to have a roommate of Vietnamese descent, and he would eat it all the time. It looked gross, but I finally had it - wrapped in seaweed and rice - it was terrific.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

Beans have a soul.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.