Pulses have been cultivated as food for several thousand years. There is evidence in the near east of cultivation of field beans and lentils dated between 7000 and 6000 B.C.
Broad beans have had a mixed history: Egyptian priests forbade their eating believing that each one contained the soul of a dead man. The Romans used them as counters in political matters. The white ones were for yes and the black ones for no.
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