The room’s centerpiece is a 50-foot-long Santa Maria-style grill: a fire pit, lined with red-hot embers ... and they'd cook over an open grill, not smoke it." But as straightforward and ...

The Spanish introduced the grill in the early 1900s, and the below-ground pit became ... make a great fire for it, break it down into embers, and then you just slow roast. Santa Maria-style ...

Shutz went on to open his own meat market and to popularize the cut, which eventually was adopted by Santa Maria ... "pit" that he pulls behind his pickup. It is formidable and serious. The grills ...