Simon Hopkinson's latest book is an English-looking volume with a Francophile sensibility, inspired by a meal thrown together from leftover... Serves 4, as a light lunch or supper I like the mimicry ...

There's nothing difficult about bean cookery since it is only a question of time. Before cooking, all dried beans need to be rehydrated by soaking. The 10- to 12-hour overnight soak is the easy and ...

Results: The tried-and-true method of soaking dried beans overnight before cooking yielded our favorite pot. Soaking the beans gave them time to slowly and evenly hydrate from the inside out. This ...