"green beans" news and stories

How do you keep vegetables like green beans, asparagus and broccoli brightly colored after cooking? Shock 'em.

Leave the green beans out of the casserole with a sophisticated cut on fall's favorite legume.

Want to add something else to those Thanksgiving green beans? Bacon and hazelnuts are a simple, smoky addition to haricots verts. We all know bacon makes everything taste better -- why not venture down that route?

Get this green bean recipe along with many others after the jump.

For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

This simple, well-balanced bento comes from Kayepants. We've got some roll-ups of flour tortilla, Laughing Cow cheese, salami and pickles - American makizushi! - along with green beans, honey-roasted peanuts and cottage cheese with salt and papper.

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Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter picks up his second restaurant, Monkey Bar. His first, the Waverly Inn, has been luring a high wattage crowd for two years, despite not being officially open.

L.A.'s fast food moratorium raises questions about choice and personal responsibility.

The Minimalist makes chapati, Indian flat bread.

A recipe for slow-cooked green beans.

Eric Asimov sips the crisp white wines of Spain.

Specialty coffee roasters hit New York.

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