WHEN IT’S SAINT NICHOLAS EVERY BEAN HAS A BLACK HEAD.
A popular Barese way of saying: “A Sanda Nicol, ogni fav la cape gnore” (“When it’s Saint Nicholas every bean has a black head”) because it is in this period beans are harvested and sold to be eaten raw as fresh vegetables.
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The day May 8, in Bari (Apulia, Italy) (link: goo.gl/maps ), is celebrated Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of the city.
After the celebration day of Saint Nicholas, however, the “nasello” (the tuberculous proliferation that grow on the seed: the caruncola) becomes dark and the seeds are no longer tender and no longer good to be eaten raw.
Apulian peole eat a lot of fava bean, they have a dialect way of saying that could be translated into the italian language: “Among all legumes the fava bean is the queen / cooked in the evening, re-cooked in the morning.”
Text taken from the project Biodiverso;
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