This site is organized around traditional local bean dishes from around the world and botanical types, but it may expand to include other approaches in the future. It can never be comprehensive but I will keep adding to it as new information comes to light.
These are not my recipes, but recipes I have found in cookbooks and online. I am including references and recipes as I find them. Some of these recipes are not yet available in English, but it's an adventure to work from a translation or follow a video. You can probably guess that I have not yet attempted to make all of these recipes, though I'd like to eventually cover most of them. I post most of my bean cooking efforts on Instagram.
Please be in touch if you have any suggestions or additions. I'm on a steep learning curve and your input would be gratefully received.
Some, but not all, dishes with meat are left off the list. I'm more interested in vegetarian dishes, but when a typical local bean usage also includes meat I tend to include it. This is inconsistent and a little arbitrary, but I'm figuring it out as I go.
Whose idea was this?
Jennie Gottschalk wants to know all about beans, and is using this site to keep a record of resources, dishes, and other findings. It will never be perfect or complete, and right now it's a mess, but hopefully a productive one. Other projects have included a book and website about experimental music and a collaborative book about musical temporality. She also writes music. Occasionally it also involves beans. Other fascinations include the sounds of languages and especially idiolects. None of these interests generate an income, but fortunately she enjoys doing transcription work as well.
I've put this site online before it's fully baked. Here are some things, roughly in order of priority, that I'd like to do with it.