Easter has a special meaning for cooks. Of course, it’s a day of celebration, but it’s also a signal of the changing of seasons, of the shift from the hearty foods of the chilly months to the fresher ...

Fresh fava beans - a spring delicacy - have returned to local restaurant menus in sublime specials. Lucia featured a fava bean agnolotti at its grand re-opening last weekend, and Nonna features fusili ...

A few weeks ago, a friend gave me some of the first fava beans from his garden. Even though the weather lately has felt dreary and wintry, seeing those favas made me realize that, oh yeah, it’s spring ...

Marcia Kiesel, a former Food & Wine test kitchen supervisor, is an experienced chef and recipe developer who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America. She co-authored the cookbook Simple Art ...

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If I had to power rank spring’s most quintessential legumes, I’d place fava beans at the very top. While fava beans are generally available year-round, their peak season is during the spring, from ...

Broad beans are the harbingers of spring. Sure, all that podding (and double podding) is fiddly, but the results, we think, are well worth the effort. They work beautifully in spring-ready salads and ...

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Americans are undergoing an awakening when it comes to fava beans, with their buttery texture and slightly bitter, lovely nutty flavor. And after... Think Jack and the Beanstalk. The magic beans that ...