I find beans entrancing. Their splendid colours, shapes and shiny skins are jewel-like, beautiful and tactile. There are some recipes in which only dried beans, soaked overnight and cooked from ...

Simon Hopkinson's latest book is an English-looking volume with a Francophile sensibility, inspired by a meal thrown together from leftover... Serves 4, as a light lunch or supper I like the mimicry ...

In this video, Martha Stewart shares her recipe for seven bean salad. This simple salad combines chickpeas, dried snowcap beans that have been cooked, scarlet runner beans, dried kidney beans, ...

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