Succotash

Succotash — a dish of corn kernels and lima beans (or other shell beans) cooked together, often with butter and sometimes with salt pork — is one of the oldest continuously prepared dishes in North America. The name derives from the Narragansett *msickquatash* ("boiled corn kernels"). The dish predates European contact and was adopted by colonists who encountered it in the Northeast. Succotash is the simplest expression of the Three Sisters relationship (AM12-02) — corn and beans cooked together, providing complete protein — and it survives in American cooking as a Southern summer side dish made when both corn and lima beans are at their freshest. · Preparation