Denver Life Magazine

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AL PASTOR

• Small slices of spitfire pork that’s often topped with pineapple. Al pastor came from the shawarma that Lebanese immigrants brought to Mexico in the 1930s, and it quickly became a popular, ubiquitous style in Mexico and the United States.

BARBACOA

• This style of cooking was traditionally done in underground pits

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