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Show Bean Diet Although in the United States about nine pounds of dried beans per person are eaten each year, the bean diet is far from monotonous. Every section of the nation has a different way of preparing the many varieties of dried beans-navy beans-navy or pea, red kidney, great northern, yellow eye, pinto and lima, to list the most familiar. Some of the recipes come straight from the American Indians In-dians who cultivated beans from Peru to Canada many centuries before the coming of white men. The baked bean, for example, was familiar fare around New England Indian camp fires long before the founding of Boston. Succotash a mixture of corn and beans was' a popular dish of the Incas in Peru, while the frij-oles frij-oles of the ancient Mexican Indian are still considered the national food of Mexico. |