FREE: French Heirloom: Prized Cassoulet Bean

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'Haricots Tarbais" are the classic gourmet French bean - a plump snowy-white variety that has been grown for centuries around the village of Tarbes, in southwestern France -- highly prized (expensive, even in France) for making cassoulet.
Technically we can't call them "haricots Tarbais" - that's an "appellation d'origine contrôlée" (the French take local food pretty seriously) - because they weren't grown there -- these come from an organic grower here in sunny California. Here's what they've got to say about this rare and wonderful bean:
"Rather than suffer French prices, which can run up to $30 a pound when out of season, we took seed from France and produced this bean with our distinct terroir here in California. Tarbais beans were developed by generations of farmers in Tarbes, France. The original seed is a New World runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus) and most likely orginated in Mexico. Out of respect for the French farmers and terroir, we're calling the bean Cassoulet Bean."
"Skins unusually thin and delicate, lower starch content than other types, and of remarkable tenderness!"

This is a runner bean, 90 days for dry beans

you're bidding on 13 very special beans