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That price point stretches across a variety of legumes, including garbanzos, cannellini and pinto.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2022

I don’t use the traditional anchovy anymore, but I do sometimes add canned beans, garbanzos or cannellini, for their heartiness and protein.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2018

He sources Spanish garbanzos, a smaller legume that Menashe says has better, more concentrated flavor, and he uses an imported tahini paste used by many chefs in Israel.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2018

You got your pintos, your garbanzos, your small reds, your dark kidneys.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2016

He sends for garbanzos, habas, biscuit, soap, and many other things, which cost their weight in money; and when they reach the islands, they are rotten and useless.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander