Today morning my mother in law, Monique, gave a bunch of fava beans to my son — 3 years and 6 months old and asked him to peel them. He couldn’t do it successfully. He couldn’t use his small fingers to put enough pressure on the pods and force the peas to pop out. Then suddenly, Monique did something interesting — she got a small knife and cut a small slid across all the pods and my son was able to get the peas out of the pods…
