Actopan, the Mexican City Where Barbecue Is a Religion

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It dawns with six degrees in the transparent morning of Actopan, village of the state of Hidalgo, considered a town with a taste and cradle of the barbecue of sheep, cooked in a ground oven, wrapped in pencas de maguey and accompanied by the traditional consommé. It is a method of cooking of prehispanic inheritance that the region has preserved faithfully, another of the many ways that Mexico has to express its gastronomic identity before the wo…