Fava

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

I baked bread with fava beans, white sorghum, barley and wheat.

You will eat couscous with fava beans.

You'll be eating couscous with fava beans.

1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269, Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.

When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.

Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.

In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.