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Barbacoa. Barbacoa or Asado en Barbacoa (Spanish: [baɾβaˈkoa] ⓘ) in Mexico, refers to the local indigenous variation of the method of cooking in a pit or earth oven. [1] It generally refers to slow-cooking meats or whole sheep, whole cows, whole beef heads, or whole goats in a hole dug in the ground, [2] and covered with agave (maguey) leaves, although the interpretation is loose, and in ...
It is the cow's head that defines South Texas barbecue (called barbacoa). The head would be wrapped in wet maguey leaves and buried in a pit with hot coals for several hours, after which the meat would be pulled off for barbacoa tacos. Lengua (beef tongue) tacos were also made. Today, this barbecue is mostly cooked in an oven in a bain-marie. [16]
An often repeated and unsubstantiated story among the Chicanos and Tejanos is that barbacoa de cabeza was invented in Texas, specifically in the South of the state, by Tejano vaqueros (cowboys) who were supposedly paid by their Anglo bosses by giving them the unwanted parts, the offal, of the slaughtered cattle, ignoring the fact that barbacoa de cabeza has a long history throughout Mexico and ...
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The original Arawak term barabicu was used to refer to a wooden framework. Among the framework's uses was the suspension of meat over a flame. The English word barbecue and its cognates in other languages come from the Spanish word barbacoa, which has its origin in an indigenous American word. [3]
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Mexican historian Leovigildo Islas Escárcega stated in 1945 that birria was a term specifically from Jalisco and some areas of the interior for barbacoa. [14] Mexican chef and professor Josefina Velázquez de León stated in 1946 that barbacoa has many variations or styles depending on the region of Mexico, and that birria was one style. [15]