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Default Expensive vegetables.

On May 9, 1:36*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 09/05/2013 3:57 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
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> > On May 9, 12:45 pm, Janet Bostwick > wrote:

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> > The think that cracks me up about fava beans is that, in this country,
> > they were grown as a nitrogen fixing ground cover and cattle feed.

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> > When the high end chefs started using them they became "trendy".

>
> > Thanks but the lowly lima does the same thing for me.

>
> Oh? I have never had them, but thanks for the warning.


Not a warning. Those fordhook lima beans are terrific.