In Mexican cuisine, cabeza, from barbacoa de cabeza, is the meat from a roasted beef head, served as taco or burrito fillings. It typically refers to barbacoa de cabeza or beef-head barbacoa, an entir
Beef heads, wrapped in aluminum foil, cooked in barbacoa.
A taco stand advertising tacos de cabeza in Tijuana, Mexico
A Barbacoa de Cabeza recipe from 1836, from the Mexican cookbook “Nuevo y Sencillo Arte de Cocina, Repostería y Refrescos” by Antonia Carrillo.
Boiled calf’s head and tongue, from the American cookbook “The American Home Cook Book” (1854). Beef head, tongue, sweetbreads, and brain, used to be a mainstream and highly prized dish in American cuisine.
Barbacoa, or asado en barbacoa in Mexico, is the indigenous variation of the method of cooking in a pit or earth oven. It generally involves slow-cooking meats or whole sheep, whole cows, whole beef h
Cabeza
…cuisine, cabeza (lit. 'head'), from barbacoa de cabeza, is the meat from a roasted beef head, served as taco or burrito fillings. It typically refers to barbacoa de cabeza or beef-head barbacoa, an entire beef-head traditionally roasted in an earth oven, but now done in steamer or grill. When sold in restaurants…
The Taíno term barbacoa means "framework of sticks" and it was applied to a wide range of wooden structures, including a raised wooden grill for roasting and smoking foods.
In Mexico, the term barbacoa was applied to the pit or earth oven used by the local indigenous people for cooking food.