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Example sentences for: barbacoa
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Barbacoa de cabeza is the cooking of a beef head in this manner.
According to the Diccionario de Mejicanismos (Dictionary of Mexicanisms), barbacoa is “carne asada en un hoyo que se abre en tierra, y se calienta como los hornos” (grilled meat cooked in a hole in the ground heated like an oven).
The English word barbecue comes from barbacoa.
Today the term barbacoa is used only to mean the cooking of meat in a pit, also called pit cooking.
It is an old custom and cultural event that in parts of south Texas occurs every weekend, with the barbacoa eaten on Sunday mornings.