Starbucks has also adapted many products to suit Chinese tastes, such as Chai Tea Lattes, Green Tea Black Sesame Frappuccinos, Black Bean Muffins and Black Sesame Cookies.

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Bean soup with black pudding and bacon, beignets oozing warm chocolate truffle across the plate.

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And then it would arrive, the simmering caldron of rich black bean stew with all the fixings.

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It is made of Australian Black Bean Wood - everything else is oak.

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Pan-sauted Maine lobster with black bean scallion butter and egg noodles?

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We'd take our earned cruzados to the cafes lining the sand and splurge on feijoada, a dark, smoky black bean and pork stew that, oddly enough, satisfied us in the Rio heat.

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Our meal of a kids-sized grilled cheese with vegetables, black bean veggie burger and chunky lobster roll, washed down with a milk, Peak Summit ale and a Painkiller cocktail (rum, coconut cream and fruit juices) respectively, left everyone happy.

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"One of the things that people don't realize -- that movies don't portray -- is that pirates are the scum of the earth, " said Bean, who runs the historically focused League of the Black Flag cosplay organization.

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Inspired by the Portuguese colonists' white bean stew, they created a concoction with the earthier (and in my book, tastier) black beans.

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