Beans: Nutritious, delicious, climate-friendly — and perfect on toast

For January 2024, Cork chef Ali Honour wants us to think less about ditching things from the diet and more about including delicious, highly nutritious and climate-friendly beans

Cork chef Ali Honour. Pic: Joleen Cronin

January is a time of new beginnings and, often, new resolutions involving food. But this doesn’t have to be about hairshirts and denial. Having enjoyed ourselves in December, getting together with people over turkey and puddings and chocolate boxes and treats, doesn’t mean that we need to turn January into a grim food wasteland. Think less about ditching things from the diet and more about including something delicious, highly nutritious and climate-friendly. That food? The humble bean, in all its many, varied and tasty forms.

Beans is How is an international campaign with the ambitious target of doubling the consumption of beans worldwide by 2028. Cork chef Ali Honour works with The Chefs’ Manifesto — a chef-led project bringing together more than 1,200 chefs in 92 different countries to look at how they can help deliver a sustainable food system - to get this proactive message across.