Peeling fava beans is a fiddly task that includes removing the beans from their pods, blanching them and then peeling off the skins. But for a light dish of pasta, peas, cracked black pepper and ...

Favas, artichokes, spring onions and green garlic are all fleetingly in season at the same time. Here’s a way to use them all together. This dish is based on a Greek olive oil recipe, meaning that the ...

Favas take time to prepare: Grab a glass of something (perhaps Chianti), sit on the deck and decompress. The beans first must be removed from their cozy, down-insulated pods. Then the shelled beans ...

Pasta isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of warm-weather food. But it is what comes to mind when you think of good food. Those two ideas intersect in this light dish from Marc ...

There is no finer harbinger of spring than the glorious emerald hues that fill farmers markets and gardens in April — the slender asparagus, the stately artichoke and, especially, the fabulous fava.

PERHAPS NO OTHER vegetable has inspired as much dread and desire as the fava bean. Over time, some have thought favas bring good luck, bad luck, health and abundance, or death and destruction. Who ...

Lidia Mattichio Bastianich is one of the best-loved chefs on public television, a best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Her current ...