Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's a seriousness and beauty to a food whose preparation begins with the need to dig a rather large hole. Though it might come ...

Espita Mezcaleria wanted to serve barbacoa but knew they wouldn’t curry any favors with the city or neighbors if they dug out a brick-lined oven in Blagden Alley. In Mexico, the mesquite-fired ...

Food writer Bill Esparza continues his journey through California for barbacoa — the pit-roasted meat found throughout Mexico. In the Central Valley, he encounters the traditions of Oaxaca’s Mixteco ...

There’s a seriousness and beauty to a food whose preparation begins with the need to dig a rather large hole. Though it might come as a surprise that throughout the global history of gastronomy, ...