Many of us know baked beans as a slightly sweet dish, but some canned options have been savory. Popular opinion also links ...

In The Truth About Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England, Muckenhoupt writes, “As I began researching Boston baked beans, I rapidly realized most of the origin stories about sweet bean ...

Boston has been out-beaned by Chicago ... “In some ways, they expect to see baked beans, fish chowder, that classic New England food. I guess if you go to Philly, you’re looking for a ...

The origins of the nickname — which refers to a distinct style of baked beans sweetened with molasses — often are linked to New England’s colonizers, the Puritans. One story says Boston ...

Colonists in New England were introduced to dried beans ... on Saturday evening. Boston embraced baked beans – made in a bean pot with molasses, salt pork, mustard and, sometimes, an onion ...