Refried beans Refried beans Refried beans (Spanish: "frijoles refritos") is a dish of cooked and mashed beans and is a traditional staple of Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, although each cuisine has a different approach when making the dish. Refried beans are also popular in many other Latin American countries. The name is a direct calque of Spanish "frijoles refritos", "refritos" meaning "rehashed" or "reheated" in English. In this dish, after being boiled and then mashed into a paste, the beans are sometimes then fried or baked, though usually neither, thus making the term "refried" even more misleading. In northern Mexico and in
History of Mexican Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth a Mexican American. It was established on September 15, 1918. Christina Rosales of "The Dallas Morning News" wrote that it "has been credited with starting the Tex-Mex craze in the U.S." Pizza Patrón, headquartered in Dallas, markets itself to Mexican American families. It was established by Antonio Swad, a person not of Mexican origins. History of Mexican Americans in Dallas–Fort Worth There is a rapidly growing Mexican-American population in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Sol Villasana, the author of "Dallas's Little Mexico", wrote that "Mexicans have been part of Dallas since its beginning." In the 1870s the first significant groups of