Rancho Gordo's beans made Bon Appetit's list of "Essential ingredients you shouldn't cook without."
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"Rancho Gordo Dried Beans
"One of the main reasons that BA is obsessed with these heirloom beans is because of the Napa-based company’s high turnover rate: In other words, they’re some of the freshest dried legumes on the market, so they cook in less tim