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green bean

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Cultural layer

Origin
Mesoamerica and the Andes; Phaseolus vulgaris, the same species as the dry common bean, eaten young in the pod
Routes
Carried to Europe after 1492 and bred for pods rather than seeds; now grown for European supermarkets on irrigated farms in Kenya, Morocco and Egypt
Context
Green beans on a British shelf in January were grown in Kenya, air-freighted, and irrigated in a water-stressed country to meet a demand for an out-of-season vegetable. The bean is Mesoamerican, the farm is East African, the water is local and scarce, and the supermarket calls it fine beans. Every part of that sentence is a decision somebody made.
Behind this layer

Diccionario Enciclopédico de la Gastronomía Mexicana (Ricardo Muñoz Zurita, 2012)

Route

Pending

The routes are written. They are not yet mapped.

This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.

1 of 409 entries carries a mapped route · nutmeg is the prototype

What renders here when it lands
  • Waypoints

    Ordered places, each with its kind

  • Coordinates

    Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from

  • Segments

    From, to, and the mechanism that moved it

  • Confidence

    Documented, attributed or contested

  • Summary

    What the route argues, in a sentence

Names · co-equal, marked by how each one travelled

Foodway

Present as a living food culture.

No names recorded.

Peoples
Indigenous Mesoamerican peoples

Connections

9 bonds · 9 sourced
Reinforced
.60

Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for beans, green in the 2008 edition.

Reinforced
.60

Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for beans, green in the 2008 edition.

Reinforced
.60

Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for beans, green in the 2008 edition, where lemon, juice is set in bold.

Reinforced
.60

Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for beans, green in the 2008 edition, where butter, unsalted is set in bold.

Reinforced
.60

Set in bold in The Flavor Bible: recommended by a number of the chefs it surveyed.

CanonThe Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)

Read from the entry for beans, green in the 2008 edition.

Reinforced
.60

Score unexamined

OriginDiccionario Enciclopédico de la Gastronomía Mexicana (Ricardo Muñoz Zurita, 2012) · Los clasicos de la cocina mexicana (Ricardo Munoz Zurita, 2009)

Read in Los clasicos de la cocina mexicana, page 58, mole de olla, the ear of corn and 150 grams of green beans in the same pot; the cited Diccionario Enciclopedico was not the book in hand.

Reinforced
.60

Mole amarillo: green beans and chayote in a sauce of tomato, tomate verde and dried chillies.

OriginDiccionario Enciclopédico de la Gastronomía Mexicana (Ricardo Muñoz Zurita, 2012) · Los clasicos de la cocina mexicana (Ricardo Munoz Zurita, 2009)

Relocated in Los clasicos de la cocina mexicana, page 68. There are no ejotes a la mexicana in this book; the cited Diccionario Enciclopedico was not the book in hand.

Reinforced
.60

Minestrone col battuto all'aglio, with green beans broken into pieces.

OriginLa Cuciniera Genovese, eighth edition (G. B. and Giovanni Ratto, 1893) · The Flavor Bible (Page and Dornenburg, 2008)Recorded on pesto

Read in La Cuciniera Genovese, eighth edition, 1893, recipe 102, minestrone col battuto all'aglio, where the green beans go in with the fresh shelling beans. The Flavor Bible, also cited, sets it in bold in the entry for beans, green.

Experimental
.50

Score unexamined

OriginDiccionario Enciclopédico de la Gastronomía Mexicana (Ricardo Muñoz Zurita, 2012) · Los clasicos de la cocina mexicana (Ricardo Munoz Zurita, 2009)

Read in Los clasicos de la cocina mexicana, page 58, mole de olla, nine leafy branches of epazote tied together over the green beans and the corn; the cited Diccionario Enciclopedico was not the book in hand.

Bonds are drawn from culinary literature and origin-tradition references, tiered by source. Origin means a reference from the place. Witness means the pairing is the place's own and the reference documenting it was written from outside.

The score is cultural weight: how central a pairing is in the tradition that documents it. It is not a prediction of how two materials behave in a formulation and not a measure of chemical affinity. The scale is ordinal, because centrality is a judgement rather than a measurement: 1.0 where the pair is the dish, 0.9 a fixed named form, 0.8 a canonical dish, 0.7 recurrent across many dishes, 0.6 common, 0.5 attested, 0.4 marginal or compound-led.

Each score is set against a named dish and carries that dish in its note. Where a score has not been examined it says so, because an inherited figure and a researched one should not look alike.

The dish is named by a reader who knows the cuisine and cites a source appropriate to it. It has not yet been confirmed inside that source page by page, so a note records what supports a score rather than what has been checked in the book.

Cite this entry

Studio Culinar-E, "green bean", Pantry Archive, Studio Monk-E, 2026. https://studioculinar-e.com/archive/green-bean

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Bonds are tiered by source, origin-tradition references first.

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