Heirloom Marcella Cannellini Beans (California) Dried - Pack

From heirloom Italian seed, this thin-skinned cannellini is named after Italian cooking hero, Marcella Hazan, who encouraged our growing it.  A delicate tribute to a mighty force of nature.  Marcella beans are grown in California from Italian Sorana seedstock.  Sorana is a cannellini bean with incredibly thin skin and when cooked properly, an indulgent creamy texture.  You can use them in your kitchen as you would any small white, European-style bean, but with an ingredient like this, simple is often better. The Back Story from Steve:One day I was checking through our mail orders and I stopped in my tracks.  There was an order from someone named Marcella Hazan in Florida.  She ordered beans and even my first book, Heirloom Beans.  It couldn’t be!  My mind raced back to the early 1980s in San Francisco in what was possibly the smallest apartment on Nob Hill. I was young, broke and so happy to be living in the city.  Every opportunity, I’d push up my Murphy bed into the wall and have din