Fava beans reach peak availability in home gardens during the cooler months of spring and early summer. Many growers harvest ...

Preparing fresh fava beans is worth the effort. (Ben Mims / Los Angeles Times) Preparing fresh fava beans is tedious, I won’t lie. But if you tackle the process separately from cooking with them for a ...

La zuppetta di fave e piselli, or fava bean and pea soup, is a classic dish from southern Italy. I mean, especially in places ...

In the world of legumes, fava beans stand out. They are the oldest variety; there's evidence of fava bean cultivation as long as 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. They stand out visually, too: ...

A few weeks ago, a friend gave me some of the first fava beans from his garden. Even though the weather lately has felt dreary and wintry, seeing those favas made me realize that, oh yeah, it’s spring ...

I had no idea that on the day my husband, Marvin, walked in from his garden with a handful of the first fava beans of the season, that we would be eating them at almost every meal for a long time. Now ...

Baby fava beans, bright and shiny, are so sweet and tender you need to rush them right from market to kitchen. Run, don't walk, before the natural sugars inside the tiny beans turn to starch. So says ...

The plastic bag of big, tough-skinned and--by all accounts--ugly green pods sat on the kitchen counter for a week before I had the courage to look at them, much less cook them. I’d bought the fava ...

Nadia Mohd-Radzman, a food security research associate at the University of Cambridge, is on a mission to get people to eat more fava beans. Not only are they a great source of protein, fiber, and ...

Fava beans not only signal that spring has arrived; its short season reminds you that life is fleeting, so you better grab it while you can. Fresh fava beans enjoy a brief but tasty life right now.

Answering a popular reader question, with a few tips and recipes. By Tejal Rao Most mornings, a ruby-throated hummingbird hunts in the shade outside my office window, vibrating noisily as he zigzags ...