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Beans Beans Beans... What Did You Grow Up On? - Regional Foods & Brands

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Ellemeno:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 22, 2006, 10:33:44 pm ---I grew up in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the Amish Country (think of Witness, with Harrison Ford). New Jersey may call itself the Garden State, but for generations Lancaster County has billed itself as the Garden Spot of America.

Since it's now late spring and summer is a-comin' in, my thoughts are turning to the locally grown produce we feasted on. First, at this time of year, local strawberries and what we in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country know as "sugar peas" but the rest of the world knows as "snow peas."

How that staple of Asian cooking made its way to the Dutch Country I have no idea, but they have been grown in Central Pennsylvania long enough to be considered a part of "traditional" Pennsylvania Dutch cooking.



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Hi Jeff, I'm very late to this conversation.  Sugar peas and snow peas aren't the same.  Snow peas are very flat (though maybe curled).  Sugar pea pods are more rounded, more like English peas, and are much more flavorful.  I am proof they are different - I love sugar peas, and am not wild about snow peas.

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