Cristina Martínez has achieved national fame for her Mexican-style barbecue restaurant in Philadelphia, called South Philly Barbacoa. She has been featured on Netflix’s ‘Chef’s Table’ and was a 2019 finalist for the James Beard Award. Latino20
Her mouth-watering, slow-cooked lamb"barbacoa" has catapulted Cristina Martinez into culinary elite status.
But her personal story has also resonated nationally and shed light on one of the realities of the food industry — many of those who work in the nation's restaurants are immigrants, and like Martinez, some of these workers are undocumented. South Philly Barbacoa serves barbecued lamb, pancitas, and consome on weekends and Mondays. The tortillas are made with corn from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
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