Fava

Raw beans, sheep salt, nothing else. The bitterness is the point.

Earth on earth, with enough sweat to make the mash taste cooked.

Savory has an enzyme-adjacent reputation for beans; taste-wise it kills the starch dullness.

Same market week in Rome, both green, both bitter at the skin.

Menthol lifts a bean that otherwise sits heavy and slightly bitter.

Mealy flesh has no fat; the oil is what makes it a puree.

Acid against skin bitterness; add it after the second peeling.

Cured fat over green starch, warm enough that the fat slackens.

Crushed beans on toast need a bland curd to hold them there.

Spring green bitterness cuts cream better than acid manages to.

Anise-green herb against the mealy texture, Persian style.

Hay and iodine give a flat bean something to smell of.

Starchy bean, sweet mint, sharp pecorino. The Roman spring plate.

Two spring greens, one starchy and one saline. Neither needs cooking much.

Raw bean and raw shellfish, both mineral, both faintly bitter.

Green starch and funky fat; the bean drinks it and stays grassy.

Skin bitterness and cocoa run parallel; salt it, do not sweeten it.