Cowpeas

Black-eyed peas: Ivory or grayish, with a black spot, black-eyed peas also known as cowpeas are quick-cooking and popular in the American South. ❋ Mark Bittman (2010)

In markets nationwide in recent months, a kind of string beans called cowpeas have been found contaminated with high levels of a banned pesticide, for instance. ❋ James T. Areddy (2010)

Black-eyed peas also called cowpeas are legumes, a category which includes beans, peas, and lentils, and all legumes are highly nutritious. ❋ Kalyn Denny (2008)

For my own Weekend Herb Blogging post this week, I talked about black-eyed peas also called cowpeas or blackeye peas. ❋ Kalyn Denny (2006)

So, when's the last time you ate black-eyed peas also known as cowpeas, crowder peas, Southern pesa, and many other names? ❋ Pat (2006)

Black-eyed peas, also known as cowpeas, crowder peas, or pea beans are neither a pea nor a bean. ❋ Laurie Burrows Grad (1987)

Usually cooked with other vegetables such as cowpeas, amaranth ❋ Unknown (1999)

The vegetable is slightly bitter and is normally cooked with milk or other vegetables such as cowpeas and ❋ Unknown (1999)

It may be intercropped with deeply rooted crops such as cowpeas (the creeping type), cassava, pumpkins, gourds and sweet potato. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Although these mechanical systems were designed primarily for processing sorghum and pearl millet, they have also proved satisfactory for fonio and food legumes such as cowpeas and pigeon peas. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Crops of favorable host plants such as cowpeas and soybeans should not be planted in or adjacent to nut orchards subject to attack by these sucking bugs. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

But with high crop prices and cash crops such as cowpeas and groundnuts in short supply, many families have low purchasing power, compelling them to sell livestock at low prices or send members to neighbouring countries for work. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Farmers like her are keen to embrace innovations such as zai pits, which hold fertiliser and water to help crops grow, because they have seen how these can increase yields of drought-resistance crops such as cowpeas, pigeon peas and sorghum. ❋ Unknown (2011)