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Default Expensive vegetables.

On 09/05/2013 3:57 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
> On May 9, 12:45 pm, Janet Bostwick > wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.