Here’s Your Roadmap to Cooking Beans

First tip: Don’t buy canned ones

Pancotto photo by Johnny Fogg

The first step in cooking beans is buying the right ones. Most dried beans you’d find at the grocery store or in the bulk section of high-dollar organic markets aren’t very good since they don’t see enough turnover to be remotely fresh.

It would be easy to think, who cares? The beans are dry and they’re made for storage…