Taste-testing a raw green bean or two won't hurt you, but eating a whole bag — or even a full cup — might make you start to feel not-so-great. Green beans (also referred to as string beans, French ...

They used to be called string beans, but over the 20th century, the strings were bred out of them. You can now bend fresh beans until they snap cleanly, with no de-stringing necessary, so their name ...

Once string beans start producing in the garden, there's no stopping them. Although it took repeated plantings for my beans to sprout this year, the yellow wax beans are now in full harvest mode. It's ...

I almost always buy green beans at a farmers market, even if I already have some at home, There's something about the green cardboard boxes overflowing with beans that appeals to my appreciation of ...

Green bean season is in full swing, and if my friend’s garden is an accurate measure, it is a great crop this year. Many of the romano beans are nearly a foot long, and it has become nearly as hard to ...