Fresh garbanzos in the pod are in the local stores now - so are fresh olives (don't try to eat the olives without curing them!). Fresh garbanzos are much smaller than the canned ones which have been soaked and cooked - most of the ones in the images on the links David provided looked like cooked ones. Jim McKenney _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/