{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "pinquito-beans",
 "type": "pairing",
 "names": {
  "name": "Pinquito beans",
  "aliases": [
   "Pinquitos"
  ]
 },
 "region": [
  "santa-maria-valley",
  "california"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "course": "side",
  "country": "United States"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A small pink bean grown in the Santa Maria Valley and almost nowhere else, cooked with bacon or ham, garlic, chilli and a little tomato, and served in a bowl beside the beef.",
  "story": "Considered indigenous to this valley; a cross between a pink bean and a small white one. Betteravia Farms began growing them commercially in 1972, and a handful of local brands still supply the barbecue trade."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "santa-maria-tri-tip",
   "as": "The plate it belongs to.",
   "rel": "pairing"
  },
  {
   "to": "santa-maria-valley",
   "as": "The only ground that grows them at scale.",
   "rel": "region"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-santa-maria-style-barbecue"
 ],
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  "default": {
   "tier": "cited"
  }
 },
 "recipes": [
  {
   "title": "Pinquito beans, as the tradition describes them",
   "source": "s:wp-santa-maria-style-barbecue",
   "license": "ingredients-only",
   "ingredients": [
    "pinquito beans",
    "bacon or ham",
    "garlic",
    "chilli",
    "tomato"
   ],
   "note": "ingredients only: the seasoning varies house to house and no free-to-use recipe was found for the method"
  }
 ],
 "confidence": "medium",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "A small pink bean grown in the Santa Maria Valley and almost nowhere else, cooked with bacon or ham, garlic, chilli and a little tomato, and served in a bowl beside the beef.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "santa-maria-valley",
   "name": "Santa Maria Valley",
   "country": "United States",
   "note": "Bien Nacido, the bench, and the red-oak barbecue on the same ground"
  },
  {
   "key": "california",
   "name": "California",
   "country": "United States",
   "note": "from Anderson Valley to the Santa Maria bench, wherever fog reaches"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "santa-maria-tri-tip",
   "type": "pairing",
   "name": "Santa Maria tri-tip",
   "as": "The plate it belongs to.",
   "rel": "pairing"
  },
  {
   "to": "santa-maria-valley",
   "type": "region",
   "name": "Santa Maria Valley",
   "as": "The only ground that grows them at scale.",
   "rel": "region"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "id": "s:wp-santa-maria-style-barbecue",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Santa Maria–style barbecue",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=22881131",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1328359472",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  "text.story": {
   "tier": "cited"
  }
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "santa-maria-tri-tip",
   "type": "pairing",
   "name": "Santa Maria tri-tip",
   "as": "What comes beside it.",
   "rel": "pairing"
  },
  {
   "from": "tri-tip-over-red-oak",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Tri-tip over red oak",
   "as": "The bean that grows nowhere else much.",
   "rel": "pairing"
  }
 ]
}