Bean-lovers and iron-deficient people out there: this dish is for you

Name: Sos pwa (bean sauce) Eaten in: Haiti Foodie: Gen Sos pwa was one of my favourite Haitian dish growing up. It is basically a bean sauce that can be made from one of many types of beans (e.g. kidney, pinto, garbanzo or pigeon peas). As far as I can remember, I have always had… Continue reading Bean-lovers and iron-deficient people out there: this dish is for you

Cool Beans

BEANS The bean plants have their origin in Central and South America and were commonly used by the Aztecs. Many variations stem from this ancestral plant: Limas, black beans, pinto beans, white beans, green beans, kidney beans and black-eyed peas, to mention the most common. In Africa black-eyed beans (which are indigenous to the continent,… Continue reading Cool Beans