If both your parents were Italian and they were more or less pure Italian going way back, you might start out trying to eat wheat, olives, garlic, fava beans, grapes, figs, cow dairy.
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This potentially fatal condition is called favism after thefavabean.
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The person who gets the driedfavabeanin their cut gets to pay for the tortell.
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The gastronomy is based on corn, bean,favabean, chili peppers and vegetables like potatoes, quelites, turnips, and chivatos.
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Clinically, this deficiency was manifested by a haemolytic crisis precipitated by eating fava beans in the eldest daughter.
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Other staples for the majority of the population included pulses, beans, lentils and later chickpeas and fava beans.
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Fava beans and vegetables were important supplements to the cereal-based diet of the lower orders.
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Chick peas are also mixed with ful (fava beans), resulting in an entirely different dish, "mukhluta", with a distinct flavor and brownish color.
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It may also be accompanied by cooked fava beans or mellocos, though mellocos are rather uncommon.
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During the rainy season, dishes based on wild mushrooms, fresh corn and green fava beans are popular.
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Fava beans must be cooked, for medical reasons.
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Principle crops include corn, beans and fava beans.
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In addition, ful medames (mashed fava beans) is one of the most popular dishes.
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Other crops include fava beans, maguey, and some fruit trees.
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Fava beans are eaten both green and dried.
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Crops grown here include corn, potatoes, fava beans, carrots, spinach, onions, radishes and other vegetables, mostly grown on family farms.
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