For tender, intact beans, this reliable method cannot be beat.

There's nothing difficult about bean cookery since it is only a question of time. Before cooking, all dried beans need to be rehydrated by soaking. The 10- to 12-hour overnight soak is the easy and ...

I made two pots of beans this week and feel especially accomplished. One pot of beans — made into a soup of ruddy pinquitos — is already a bounty that affords meals for days, with broth that only gets ...