Before submarine-size smokers stacked with prime briskets and dino ribs became synonymous with Texas cuisine, there was barbacoa. An Indigenous cooking technique for smoking whole animals in underground pits, barbacoa dates back to pre-Columbian times in the Caribbean. After eventually making its way to the rodeos and cattle-branding picnics of Hidalgo, Mexico, by 1840, vaqueros carried the tradition to Texas.
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