Our soup, a bowl called sayur lodeh, consisting of a mix of vegetables, bean curd and soy beans in a light coconut milk sauce, was delicious and left us wanting seconds.

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The shop, which touts its "bean to bar" process, sources cocoa beans from all over the world.

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If you insist on pushing boundaries, on demanding an adult jelly bean experience, there's always licorice jelly beans.

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The main problem with bean counting is not in the counting: it is the beans.

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But jelly bean fans are not indiscriminate, most often seeking out the red beans, in particular the cherry and strawberry flavored gummy treats.

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Guarana (aka Guaranine): Guarana is a bean from South America that contains roughly twice as much caffeine as coffee beans.

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There is even a second smaller bean chute if you want to make some decaf while it is loaded with full strength beans.

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Ask for butter beans up North and you're likely to get a beige-colored bean stew made from dried limas that are soaked, drained then simmered with seasonings.

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The baked bean index - my colleague Anthony Reuben noted in the spring how the value of sales of baked beans - a classic recession food - had risen 21.6% in April compared with the same month last year.

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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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