Coco beans

Eastside Road, October 24, 2009—

IN BERKELEY TODAY TO VISIT friends visiting from Hawaii (I know that's complicated; they hadn't time to drive up our way), and remembered the Saturday market on Center Street, so stopped to see what was to be seen. We used to shop that market every week, but it's twelve years since we left Berkeley; it's getting to where I hardly know the streets any more.
What should we find but those excellent black nearly spherical beans David Tanis had put in his faux-cassoulet Monday night, so we bought some, of course.
Lindsey wasted no time shelling and cooking them for dinner. Delicious. Tomatoes, broad beans, Coco beans. Maybe it's Koko; I could get to them plighted.

Malbec, "La Finca" (Mendoza), 2009