King City Pink Beans from North America

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£7.45

A pretty Californian variety with a literary heritage and a wonderfully rich, gravy-like bean broth. The Heirloom Bean Co sources these and a range of other Phaseolus beans from North American bean specialist Rancho Gordo, founded in the early 2000s by Steve Sando to preserve and promote traditional and rare bean varieties of the Americas. These rose-tinted beauties originated in King City, deep in California’s Salinas Valley, during the 1930s. Their growing popularity earned a mention in the novel that made John Steinbeck’s name: Tortilla Flat, published in 1935, four years prior to The Grape

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