Melon en Surprise was Auguste Escoffier's title for a five line description of a tasty combination of melons and other fresh fruits in his 1903 masterpiece Le Guide Culinaire. Of course, Escoffier was working from the notes and techniques of...

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Beans

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Beans, beans, beans!

If there were a "best of beans" award, which would you pick?

End of summer is truly the culmination of bean season. Even the wax bean--which prefers cooler weather than most other beans--is about at the farm market now.

How to make sense of all these beans and all those bean names? Here's a bean primer to help you through bean season:

Beans are legumes whose seeds or pods are eaten, but are not classified as peas or lentils (which are also legumes). For the record, legumes are plants with double-seamed pods containing a single row of seeds.

Beans can be divided into two main groups: those that can be eaten pod and all, called green or snap beans, and others that are shelled for their seeds and eaten either fresh or dried, called shell or dried beans.

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Sugar Snap Peas

The sugar snap pea is a sweet, tender sugar pea that has an edible pod.

Sugar snaps are most flavorful cooked briefly, but they also can be eaten raw.

A cool weather vegetable, the sugar snap can be planted and harvested either in the spring or the fall.

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English Peas

“Come tonight, the peas are ready!”

So started the invitation sent each spring in the first fresh peas of the year competition held by Thomas Jefferson and his neighbors.

Most gardeners say that it is impossible to buy peas that taste like those that come straight from the garden.

Garden peas—also commonly called English peas or green peas—are one of the first vegetables harvested in spring. They are best picked as soon as the pods fill out and the peas inside are fat and round.

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Peas

There are three kinds of peas. Peas that are shelled and the seeds are eaten either fresh or dried. Peas that have edible pods—the seeds and pod are eaten together whole. And peas that can either be shelled or eaten whole.

Shelling peas are valued for their seeds. Shelling peas are also called garden pea, green pea, baby pea, early pea, English pea, June pea, and by the French name petit pois. The seeds of the shelled pea are best eaten fresh shortly after they have been picked and shelled.

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