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Real Meal from Underground Barbecue Pit Tales
Joe Quirino Maez, longtime chuck wagon cook on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, describes tatema as underground barbecue. He recounts digging a deep hole, heating rocks, cooking beef, steer head, brains, and beans in a bean pit, plus daily camp routines for No.1 and No.2 wagons and summer roundups. He served in World War II and worked on the reservation until 1962, then in El Paso.
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Joe Quirino Maez
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Snow Spring
Apache Summit
Snow Spring Canyon
No. 1
Tularosa
Camp Carson
Colo
Frank Burris
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