Tacos de barbacoa. On Sundays, I am thankful for the local Mexican meat markets for selling barbacoa that is muy rico— and as I get older, I am especially thankful that barbacoa reminds me of strong family traditions that take my mind, my stomach and my heart back to great childhood memories. Growing up Tex Mex Growing up in South Texas—puro Tex Mex, mind you—one eats their fair share of barbacoa on Sunday mornings. And even when that one—talking about myself here—ends up leaving South Texas to move across the mighty Mississippi, one’s dad finds a way to keep that tradition alive. When I was a few months from turning…
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