Roasted baby goat tacos hide in a rural street food row near San Bernardino

Roasted baby goat tacos hide in a rural street food row near San Bernardino

The first thing a visitor might notice upon approaching the taco stand Tacos de Cabrito y Machitos El Lagunero is the remains of a whole baby goat roasting on a spit over simmering mesquite. The scent of the smoke upon the crisping meat is intoxicating. In a few moves, taquero Francisco Salinas whisks the goat off the spit and sets it sideways upon his flattop grill. Then he takes a butcher’s cleaver and begins hacking it down into chunks. Hours…