More than 20 years later, I still get test-taking nightmares when I hear names like Pythagoras thrown around the house now that my daughter is tackling geometry. Who knew that he, too, suffered from ...

Photo 1-2: Throughout the ages, beans have been offering an escape from all sorts of scary situations. A friend of mine once recounted his evening of clubbing after taking magic beans, describing them ...

PERHAPS NO OTHER vegetable has inspired as much dread and desire as the fava bean. Over time, some have thought favas bring good luck, bad luck, health and abundance, or death and destruction. Who ...

As vegetables go, fava beans are really old souls. Thought to have been eaten in biblical times and throughout the ancient world, favas are a traditional harbinger of spring. Pythagoras knew about ...

As vegetables go, fava beans are really old souls. Thought to have been eaten in biblical times and throughout the ancient world, favas are a traditional harbinger of spring. Pythagoras knew about ...

Fatma Nassef has spread out a small feast for me and her family on a large round table in the middle of the dining room at Cairo Café and Restaurant in Alexandria. But as our meal progresses, our ...

Think Jack and the Beanstalk. The magic beans that grew overnight into a beanstalk that reached into the clouds were very probably fava beans or, as the English call them, broad beans. Americans, ...