Ayax Silva, who opened Mi Tierra Caliente at 5350 West 64th Avenue in Arvada in late May with his longtime friends, sisters Sandra and Fernanda Calderon, scrolls through an album on his phone looking ...

Perhaps Mexico's most famous taco, the carnitas taco is steeped in history, passed down from generation to generation. And it has found its way from Quiroga in the state of Michoacan to North Texas.

Every day for 4½ hours, Sanchez is cooking up carnitas, making sure customers get a fresh helping when they stop by the truck. To make his authentic Michoacán carnitas, he can’t just cook in a regular ...

Restaurateur Carlos Villarreal moved from Laredo to Odessa to work in the oil patch. It’s not an uncommon story, but 48-year-old Villarreal brought something special with him: a carnitas recipe he’d ...

With a third-generation recipe from Michoacán, the epicenter of carnitas know-how, Carnitas Uruapan must be doing something right. The restaurant, which turned 50 this year, draws loyal crowds who ...

Carnitas means “tiny meat” in Spanish and is a dish native to the Mexican state of Michoacán. It’s typically prepared in a large cazuela where pork meat is braised and simmered for long hours in oil ...