CULTURETECHLENSButter beans
STRONG EVIDENCE evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)
Combined Graph record U-01001 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0601. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Mount Pleasant Magazine, chef RaGina Saunders: butter beans are among the ingredients 'common to traditional Gullah cooking'; okra soup is prepared with butter beans, and lima beans and rice are another common Gullah meal side. Establishes butter beans as a traditional Gullah/Lowcountry ingredient. The stored 'ham' is not addressed by this source and is not stamped; the butter-bean/lima-bean equivalence is implied by the entity's alias and the article's parallel usage, not stated outright.
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Mount Pleasant Magazine, chef RaGina Saunders: butter beans are among the ingredients 'common to traditional Gullah cooking'; okra soup is prepared with butter beans, and lima beans and rice are another common Gullah meal side. Establishes butter beans as a traditional Gullah/Lowcountry ingredient. The stored 'ham' is not addressed by this source and is not stamped; the butter-bean/lima-bean equivalence is implied by the entity's alias and the article's parallel usage, not stated outright.
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- Also known as: lima beans
- Work type: dish
- Category: sides
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- https://mountpleasantmagazine.com/2023/food/made-with-love-savory-gullah-geechee-dishes/ (verification source · master store)
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Mount Pleasant Magazine, chef RaGina Saunders: butter beans are among the ingredients 'common to traditional Gullah cooking'; okra soup is prepared with butter beans, and lima beans and rice are another common Gullah meal side. Establishes butter beans as a traditional Gullah/Lowcountry ingredient. The stored 'ham' is not addressed by this source and is not stamped; the butter-bean/lima-bean equivalence is implied by the entity's alias and the article's parallel usage, not stated outright.
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