Also known as string beans, snap beans, and haricot vert, here’s everything you need to know about green (and wax, and purple!) beans! Green beans may be most well-known by their inevitable appearance ...

Green beans, string beans, snap beans, haricots verts—whatever you like to call ’em-are the simple, stringy veggies that have graced practically every dinner table. Especially around the holidays.

The difference between a gorgeous, appealing bowl of green beans and an unsavory, mushy mess comes down to how they’re cooked. Learn how to blanch green beans and no one at the dinner table will ever ...