They're popular in Italy and you're likely to spot them in recipes for meals featuring Tuscan kale or tomatoes, like Tuscan white bean soup. Great northern beans are often noted as a substitute ...

and recipes that involve slow cooking. Cannellini beans' flavor profile is also notably different from that of navy beans.

This recipe comes from Epirus in northern Greece, where they grow plenty of giant butter beans which they cook with tomatoes and wild greens. To make it easy, I have used chard, in case you don ...

Most British recipes for Boston baked beans just use a piece of pork belly, but we think it needs some salted or smoked meat to counteract the sweetness, so we include bacon or pancetta.