What is the world’s largest edible bean?   Look that question up on the Internet and you are in for a trip down the rabbit hole.  There is a Guinness record for the World’s Tallest Bean plant. (46.3 feet/2003.) There is a record for “The…

  OK everyone. All together now. Say cowpeas. That’s what black-eyed peas are. They are a type of cowpeas, “one of the most ancient crops known to man” according to Purdue’s horticultural Jefferson Institute, and the real shocker is that they aren’t really peas at all.…