Bean sales shot up 70% in March as buyers in the early days of the pandemic emptied grocery store shelves. Now, those in the throes of 'bean remorse' are trying to figure out how to put their stockpiles to use.
Miki Vargas/Luz CalvoBut no bean goes unwasted in the well-stocked pantry of Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel. The couple estimate they've got at least 15 pounds of beans on hand right now. Their 2015 cookbook,, draws on family culinary traditions and documents how the two nourished themselves while Calvo was being treated for cancer. Cooking beans, they say, can deepen a connection to community.
The sheer ease of bean cookery is a plus, as far as Sando of Rancho Gordo is concerned. A movie lover, he has a method for timing them that's perfect for quarantine: Boil your beans for 15, turn them down, then put on the movie. When Bette Davis says,"Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night," that's when you add salt, he says. And when she says"Funny business, a woman's career," start checking them because they're probably done.
This story was edited for radio by Rose Friedman and adapted for the Web by Neda Ulaby and Petra Mayer.
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