Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

There’s something deeply satisfying in the meaty, healthful heft of beans gathered by hand from the vine for dinner. Here, three superb, vigorous, prolific snap pole beans: the Midwestern heirloom, Dow Purple Pod; Cherry Lake Snap, locally bred; and the French masterwork, Fortex.

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Three types of snap beans, harvested into a colander.