Latin American food gets a bad rap from people who think it’s unhealthy. But nothing could be farther from the truth! Our traditional dishes are full of healthy ingredients prepared with love. Let’s ...

I absolutely adore beans. From the pintos, limas, garbanzos and brown lentils of my childhood to the cannellini, fava, red lentils and Peruvian beans I discovered once I was in charge of my own pantry ...

As with all beans, lima beans and butter beans contain prebiotics, meaning they feed the healthy bacteria living our guts.

Some of Gabriela Vasquez’s favorite memories take her back to her family roots in Peru. As a girl, she happily watched while her grandmother would prepare chocolate from the cacao beans that grew in ...

For wholly unknown reasons, April 20 is National Lima Bean Respect Day. And lima beans could probably use a bit more in the way of respect. After all, along with beets and Brussels sprouts, they ...

Christopher Columbus first encountered the cacao bean on his final voyage to the New World some 500 years ago. It took a while for Europeans to embrace the taste — one 16th-century Spanish missionary ...