Listen 8 min MORE Francisco Bautista (right) opens the pit in his Santa Maria backyard where he is making a Oaxacan-style barbacoa. Photo by Wonho Frank Lee.
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 communities, where the principle dish is yique, a mixture of broken corn and chiles that is served with the barbacoa and eaten with flour tortillas. In Pixley, a small town between Fresno and Bakersfield, Esparza meets a pitmaster who is raising his own lamb, seeing the process through from beginning to end. Finally, a discovery of a rare barbacoa made with chicken known as ximbò, is found in the Bay Area. Find all of the stops Bill Esparza made in his
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