Versatile lentils move up the food chain
Photo credit: AP | From restaurant menus to upscale grocery stores, you'll find lentils in a rainbow of colors bearing an atlas of place names.
As culinary fashion continues to wind inexorably lower on the luxury scale -- from tournedos to beef cheeks, from foie gras to pork belly -- it was inevitable that we would eventually come to lentils.
Representing the lowest and plainest possible food denominator since biblical times, when Esau traded his birthright for a bowl of soup made from them, lentils have been regarded as a food you...