The story of Al Pastor begins far from the streets of Mexico, in the Middle East. The method of cooking meat on a vertical ...

Chicken al pastor marinates for hours in an adobo sauce made with dried chiles, garlic, achiote paste, pineapple juice, and spices like cumin, leaving the meat with its signature red color.

Tacos al Pastor is a traditional Mexican dish consisting of pork meat roasted on wooden skewers, like those used for shawarma ...

then cooked with the meat. Two iconic Mexican dishes, birria and tacos al pastor, have exactly that, both defined by and celebrated for those qualities: birria with its spicy braising sauce and al ...

And Estrada falls in two of those categories. When he’s not preparing cuts of meat, Estrada is the full-time pastor at Rock of My Salvation Church. He says his faith and his family helped give ...