High-quality beans, ideally navy beans, slow-simmered with molasses and bacon, are the foundation of this classic New England dish. Growing up outside of Boston it was a childhood favorite, and he never made it from scratch!
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For years, I thought that hummus wasn’t hummus without chickpeas, then I learned that in some parts of the middle east and north Africa, hummus is traditionally made with fava beans – an entirely different species of bean altogether. My eyes opened to the wider world of hummus, I began to experiment with our own local heirloom beans, and the results did not disappoint!