Preparing fresh fava beans is tedious, I won’t lie. But if you tackle the process separately from cooking with them for a meal, you’ll find the work worth the effort. Most traditional preparation ...

THE heady scent of aromatic garlic and rosemary fills the kitchen long before a magnificent roast leg of lamb goes out to the table, and you can picture already all the trimmings of a perfect spring ...

When it comes to dealing with precious spring produce in California, the less you do to it, the better. And that M.O. sustains because the produce’s unique freshness and flavor are fleeting and so ...

Fava beans not only signal that spring has arrived; its short season reminds you that life is fleeting, so you better grab it while you can. Fresh fava beans enjoy a brief but tasty life right now.

Fresh fava beans — a spring delicacy — have returned to local restaurant menus in sublime specials. Lucia featured a fava bean agnolotti at its grand re-opening last weekend, and Nonna features fusili ...

The only place I could find fresh fava beans earlier this month was on a small, potted plant at the St. Joseph Day altar at St. Cletus Church in Gretna. I tried, folks. I checked in at farmers markets ...

Baby fava beans, bright and shiny, are so sweet and tender you need to rush them right from market to kitchen. Run, don't walk, before the natural sugars inside the tiny beans turn to starch. So says ...

Ever notice how one oddball ingredient seems to become an overnight sensation in the food world? For the past few years fava (pronounced FAH-vah) beans have been popping up in all the trendy New York ...

To prepare pasta and broad beans, start with the pods of fresh broad beans: open them by breaking the top stem (1), then shell the beans with your hands (2). Once extracted, remove the small growth on ...

Preparing fresh fava beans is worth the effort. (Ben Mims / Los Angeles Times) Preparing fresh fava beans is tedious, I won’t lie. But if you tackle the process separately from cooking with them for a ...