Unshelled, fresh favas look like giant, bumpy string beans. They are 5 to 7 inches long and lined with padding that looks like cotton batting.

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. If I had to power rank spring’s most quintessential legumes, I’d place fava beans at the very top.. To start, they’re believed to be the first domesticated food ...

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Although favism, a blood disorder that can cause a violent reaction to fava beans, lurks throughout Italy, many Romans look forward to May, when the legumes are in season.