15 bean soup is a soup comprised of fifteen kinds of bean, common in the United States, and having a history that goes back over a century. While people once mixed their own beans, today a mixture of the fifteen dried beans with standard seasonings is often purchased to start off the process, although this was possible even long ago, as attested to by mail-order catalogues from the first half of the 20th century. While the normal recipe includes ham, it is a popular dish among vegetarians, sans meat.15 bean soup retains a historic trait generally left behind by other soup recipes; it is considered best-tasting if cooked for, literally, days. "Peas porrige in the pot, nine days old" may no longer apply to split pea soup, but does to 15 bean soup.The beans typically include a subset of this list:black beansred beanskidney beansnavy beansgreat northern beansVarious forms of lima beanbabygreenwhitepinto beansVarious forms of split peagreenyellowblack eyed peasVarious forms of lentilredgreenbrowncranberry beans (shell beans)chick peas (garbanzo beans)

LONDON - England - Comrade Brown, the unelected leader of the Labour one-party system in the Westminster duma, is throwing down the gauntlet to play the role of the bumbling fool and idiot Mr. Bean in a new feature film production funded by Northern Rock and other unnamed sources.

Wayne Hauge grows grains, chickpeas and some lentils on 2,000 acres in northern North Dakota. Business is up and down, as the farming trade tends to be, and he is always on the lookout for a new crop. He tried sunflowers and safflowers and black beans. Now he has set his sights on hemp.

This new theory says that it is the physics phenomenon known as the Coriolis effect that controls life.This is an interesting explanation for the shapes of nature, such as why Southeast Asians and Mexicans are short and Northern Europeans are so tall. And why bananas or coffee beans are a simple curve, while apples or peaches are a spiral shape.

CHICAGO - A northern Illinois resident reported finding a bird’s head in a can of pinto beans, prompting a Chicago-based food company to announce a voluntary recall on Friday.