The seeds should reliably germinate quickly and a sowing in March can provide a delicious harvest of fava beans in early summer. There are many types of fava bean to plant but I have always opted ...

Fava beans, the large flat seeds of a flowering plant that are commonly known as broad beans, were relatively plentiful and inexpensive through much of history. As food historian Ken Albala put it ...

Dried chiles and grains, like garbanzos and wheat berries, cooked along with dried fava beans and corn into a rich ... cooked in a rich peanut and sesame seed sauce (see recipe below) to serve ...