Under the British name, broad beans, this springtime crop was common in colonial American kitchen gardens.

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The canned broad beans which Mr Khader's wife heats on a kerosene stove come from Egypt too.

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It reminded me just a bit of a friend who I once saw being force-fed broad beans by her mother.

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