It is a large 17-12mm caliber bean, with an iridescent light green color. To obtain a light color, they must be harvested beyond the waxy state but still not too dry, collected in swaths and left to dry. Then thresh in the field with adjustment of the thresher revolutions to avoid excessive breakages. As with all other legumes, the various types of broad beans are the result of the...

It is a large 17-12mm caliber bean, with an iridescent light green color. To obtain a light color, they must be harvested beyond the waxy state but still not too dry, collected in swaths and left to dry. Then thresh in the field with adjustment of the thresher revolutions to avoid excessive breakages. As with all other legumes, the various types of broad beans are the result of the...

Minestrone di San Giuseppe is a dish that comes from a custom handed down from rural celebrations for the spring equinox of classical antiquity: in fact, the good housewife gets rid of what is left of legumes, waiting for the new harvest. There are different variants: in Syracuse borage, fennel seeds, a tuft of wild fennel, dried tomatoes are added. In Palermo and inland Sicily, dried...