How fitting that the best recipe I have seen through the years for cooking a pot of pinto beans comes from a storied Texas politician. Bob Bullock (1929-1999), who served as a representative, state ...

Pinto beans and black beans are delicious, filling and good for you. But they have some major differences in taste, texture and nutrition, dietitians say. And those factors can help you choose the ...

Few places in the grocery store are primed for hard decisions quite like the bean aisle. There are different colors and shapes, textures and sizes, along with a million and one ways to prepare, season ...

Pinto beans are tan-colored, oval-shaped beans with specks of reddish-brown. Metaphorically, each pinto bean resembles a painting, and in Spanish "pinto" means painted. Pinto beans are a staple in ...

The ballots have been certified. The votes have been tallied. All Texans who love food. On Aug. 30, I asked readers which dish best represents the entire state of Texas. Monica Peters Hardy of Abilene ...