The menu stars here are home-cooked cassoulet (a slow-cooked stew of white beans, sausages and duck or goose confit) and Mediterranean-style grilled fish.

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Healthy Arabica plants grow 10-12 feet tall and have dark-green leaves, white flowers and red or purple beans.

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The Mediterranean diets pushed either olive oil or tree nuts in addition to fatty fish, beans, tomato sauce, white meat and wine (for those already habitually drinking).

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Vanessa's stuffed zucchini with meatballs evoked memories of how her own Italian grandmother used to cook, while my freshly made rigatoni with a white ragout of small sausage meatballs, cannellini beans and rosemary was by far the most memorable pasta experience I had in Emilia-Romagna.

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Picnic tables will groan underneath the weight of piles of cole slaw, potato salad, baked beans, fresh tomatoes out of the garden and spectacularly decorated red, white and blue cupcakes.

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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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