Staring down bags and cans of white-ish, small-ish beans at the grocery store can be intimidating. You may wonder what the difference is between popular options like navy and great northern beans.

Other varieties that would work perfectly fine for this puree include navy beans and butter beans — or really anything on the grocery store shelf labeled "white beans." Using high-quality canned ...

If you want to switch things up a bit with something equally satisfying and delicious, this hearty white chicken and navy ...

For example, white beans are also called navy beans—a term not related to the colour navy but because the US Navy served these beans to their sailors since the mid-1800s. You may or may not have ...