Raúl Guerrero, a journalist in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, the central Mexican state most closely associated with barbacoa, told me this had to do with the Jewish commander under Hernán Cortés who had first been put in charge of the region that's now Hidalgo and who first introduced sheep farming—and, ...

Who invented barbacoa?

Barbacoa is believed to have originated centuries ago in Barbados, an island country in the West Antilles of the Caribbean.

What was the original barbacoa?

Barbacoa, (Spanish: “barbecue”) a method of cooking meat that originated in Mexico; the term also can refer to the meat itself. Traditionally, lamb or goat is slow roasted for several hours in a pit that is topped with maguey leaves.