The World Has Discovered Rancho Gordo and Heirloom Beans

Press coverage of Rancho Gordo has been plentiful, no doubt in part due to the colorful beans themselves. When I first started, beans seemed to be off of almost everyone’s radar. The press has been very generous in helping to spread the word about what we do. Recent articles on Rancho Gordo in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chow, Sunset, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Country Home, San Francisco Chronicle, and Chile Pepper have all contributed to the groundswell of interest in heirloom beans and New World food. In January of 2008, Saveur Magazine listed Rancho Gordo at number two on their esteemed Saveur 100 list.

I've written a handful of books, most recently The Bean Book, a New York Times Bestseller and James Beard Award nominee. Other books include: Heirloom Beans: Great Recipes from Rancho Gordo (with Vanessa Barrington) (Chronicle Books), The Rancho Gordo Pozole Book (Rancho Gordo Press), The Heirloom Bean Guide (Rancho Gordo Press), and The Rancho Gordo Vegetarian Kitchen, volumes 1 and 2 (Rancho Gordo Press).

With Rancho Gordo Press, our goal is high quality, short run, special interest publications. This is a fancy way of justifying books I'd want to read or keep for my own library.

—Steve Sando, Founder and CEO