MangiaFagioli

Italian bean-eaters Month at Divina Cucina

This painting by Annibale Carracci could have been today, but something interesting to know,this was 1580’s.The New World products had not yet been brought to Europe. He is not eating a plate of white beans, but rather black-eyed peas,fagioli all’occhio, the only “bean” until the cannellini beans and others were introduced into the Italian diet from the…