If that’s not impressive enough, the mesquite beans you’ve likely seen hanging from the tree’s thorny branches are not only tasty (when prepared the right way), they are a bit of a ...

I'm hunting mesquite trees, and they bite. Their branches, spiked with two-inch thorns, hold desert-colored, seed-hugging beans that rattle when they're ready to pick. If you break one open and ...

I’ve got a wonderful word for you – péchita. That’s the purely regional name for mesquite beans, and it comes from the Opata language. In Texas or New Mexico they know about mesquite beans ...

The latter include mesquite-bean harvesters, who have spent days gathering the dry, yellowish pods that fall across Tucson’s neighborhoods, washes and parking lots. Harvesters say their ...

GALVESTON, Texas, Jan. 6.-The experiments made by the War Department with the Mesquite beans are said to have proved successful, and a new portable food has been found for the horses. It is ...

It's something you can even use to make pastries. Hoffman starts the recipe with 3/4 ounces of mesquite bean syrup. We asked him, what can we compare the taste of this syrup to? "Somewhere in the ...

Some of the most commonly used are apple, hickory, maple, pecan, and mesquite. However, these are far from the only woods you ...