“The doomsdayers among us are sharing their grocery lists: all things canned, tinned, dried, non-perishable, shelf-stable. The panicky are buying toilet paper (why?). The prepared are buying beans,” writes MatthewSchneier on the new essential
Beans, beans, beans. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Matthew Schneier There is a pot of Christmas lima beans simmering on the stovetop. It isn’t Christmas. I am at my office, which isn’t an office. It is my kitchen. The office is mostly closed. It is one of many.
These are boom times for beans. The rise of plant-based eating and the concern over meat’s carbon footprint have moved beans from the gassy periphery to center stage. They now have pride of place on restaurant menus, given roaster and roster real estate that once would’ve gone to a rib eye. The doyennes of millennial home cooking, Alison Roman and Samin Nosrat, both love them . “Everyone loves beans,” this website declared last year.
According to Steve Sando, the founder of Rancho Gordo, a heritage- and heirloom-bean purveyor and a tireless evangelist for bean cooking, sales are up 70 percent this year over the comparable period last year. The company has been in overdrive since Christmas, and in the last two weeks, orders have skyrocketed. “A really good day for us is about 150–200 orders,” Sando says. “We’ve continually done over a thousand every day. For the last two weeks it’s the corona. It’s just so big.
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