Now, cool or not, we collectively can’t get enough of beans. The Wall Street Journal reports that they’re one of the fastest growing and most popular ingredients in new food products. “Everything about a bean is fashionable,” declared Lu Ann Williams, the director of innovation at Innova Market Insights, a firm that tracks food and beverage trends. (I may be a woman who can confidently admit that I love beans, but what I truly long to be is a woman who can confidently proclaim, “Everything about a bean is fashionable!”) A recent article in The Atlantic looked more closely at the rise of the chickpea in America, shepherded in through items like store-bought hummus and aided by people’s conscious desire to eat less meat. Eating beans instead of beef, we’re even told, could save the world.
On Beans
