To shell, squeeze the pods between your thumbs and fingers on the seams to pop them open. Hold the pod over a bowl and run ...

Take this dish of snap peas with cuttlefish and wakame (seaweed). The peas, also known as sugar (and sugar snap) peas and as teardrop peas, which are as popular in Shanghai as in Spain ...

Sugar snap peas can be kept in the fridge for up to three days. They can be blanched and frozen, but may lose some of their crunch.