Daily News | Can lima beans become the new brussels sprouts? Philly-area farmers hope to reform their image.
Sarah Dohle is a Bucks County native, a former Delaware Valley University professor, and a phaseolus curator — or bean keeper — for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She has long loved legumes, but she was deeply skeptical of one bean for years.
Dohle, now based in Washington state, is spearheading a USDA grant-funded initiative aimed at building better lima beans — ones that home cooks and restaurant customers will clamor for. Lab scientists, food scientists, farmers, and seed companies all have a role to play if this four-year, multi-center project is to succeed. Surprisingly, so do Philadelphians.
But tastier sprouts wouldn’t have gotten so far if it weren’t for restaurant chefs who served up rendition after rendition of flavorful sprouts — basted in bacon fat, deep-fried, caramelized — in the ’00s. Recipe writers and cookbook authors joined in, spreading the craze to home kitchens. As the vegetable became ubiquitous on menus,Dohle and her collaborators hope to set off a similar ripple effect with their lima bean project. Ultimately, they’d like more farmers to grow lima beans.
To fully understand those benefits, labs at UC Davis, Clemson, University of Delaware, and UC Riverside will study lima beans, growing hundreds of seed samples, collecting plant DNA, analyzing traits, and identifying genetic markers. As they go, they’ll loop in end consumers. Food scientists at Delaware Valley University and Iowa State University will conduct taste-tests and consumer-preference surveys to triangulate limas’ most appealing qualities.
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