The ice creams, made with eggs, are rich, and their flavors are delicate vanilla, chocolate that tastes of good cocoa, strawberry thick with fruit, coffee nubbly with bits of bean, mint chocolate chip and maple walnut: Available at Dean & DeLuca at 560 Broadway (Prince Street), and at 1150 Madison Avenue (85th Street).
Garnish each bowl with coriander, a basil leaf, and a bit of bean sprouts.
Add a bit of bean-cooking liquid, then blend until smooth.
Here is how I layer: tortilla, cheese, a bit of beans, meat, lettuce, salsa, guacamole and sour cream.
"One day we might have a little bit of beans, the next day rice, another day turnips.
Ms. Lieberman's line includes excellent chocolates, with stand-out truffles ($48 a pound) and white chocolate squares embedded with bits of coffee bean, lime or raspberry ($15 a pound).
There are herbs on the fish, crunchy bits of sea bean, and transparently thin slices of kumquat.
The gigantic El Metate burrito is stuffed with wonderful, lime-scented beef, pinto beans, rice, salsa, and, oddly, bits of green beans and carrots.
LINDA GRISHMAN CHOCOLATES combines dark rich chocolate with bits of espresso beans in irresistible Dashing Through the Snow crunch bars.
A few minutes later, he assembled his dish, a brilliant-green watercress soup, garnished with bits of artichoke, beans, and peas, and a sorbet of white grapes and Mexican lime, finished with a dash of avocado oil.
Chunks of lightly poached Norwegian salmon with bits of green beans in a creamy dressing ($3.95 a quarter pound), a similar salad of fresh tuna ($2.95 a quarter pound) and a salad of plump mussels with peppers and onions called "el grande mussel salad" ($2.95 a quarter pound) are also worthwhile.
