Gary Nabhan holds white
tepary beans grown at his home in Patagonia, Ariz..
Most of these lines had
tepary as a parent, suggesting its DNA was helping the plants tolerate heat.
It's not easy to get heat tolerance
from tepary into common beans, says James Kelly, a bean breeder at Michigan State University in East Lansing, who was not involved in the study.
We then opted for the Creekstone Farms ribeye steak served
with tepary beans, poblano peppers, roasted tomato and a tomatillo salsa, and a side of brussel sprouts and broccoli.
It is interesting because it contains a number of pre-Columbian ingredients, namely Chiltepins, corn, squash, potatoes, and
tepary beans.
In many cases, they had crossed common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris)-- which include black beans, kidney beans, and pinto beans — with a distant relative,
the tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius).
The most important domesticated species of the genus Phaselous, are P. vulgaris or kidney bean, P. lunatus or lima bean, P. coccineus or runner bean, and P. acutifolius or
tepary bean.