Variation on a Theme

[lsanderson]

Pasta with beans and mussels.
By MARK BITTMAN
Published: September 4, 2009

I HAVE cooked pasta with mussels and I have cooked pasta with beans, but I had never cooked pasta with mussels and beans — or even thought of the combination — until I had dinner earlier this year with my friend Luciano Castiello, who is a native of the Liguria region of northwest Italy. Perhaps more important, he’s had jobs — currently as a marketer for Banfi, the wine producer and importer — that require him to travel the world, to better understand the relationship between food and wine. More

Recipe: Pasta with Beans and Mussels (September 9, 2009)