' “The ancient Egyptians lived largely on lentils; and where are the Pharaohs now?” Don asks at the start of the book, and he proceeds to blame all the world’s ills on the deleterious effects of the “accursed” bean.
“There will be no beans in the Almost Perfect State,” he flatly declares, but at the end of the book he reveals the joke: “If you will eat beans, here is the way to prepare them,” Don writes, and he then delivers, in narrative form, a glorious, laborious recipe for country-style baked beans made with generous helpings of salt pork, molasses, onions and mustard.'
http://donmarquis.com/dons-baked-beans-2/#more-1369

An odd sort of quasi-libertarian utopia; to me, stimulating rather than convincing. Being Marquis, it is more interesting reading than the average utopia. ( )