Reveling in the Rio Grande Valley

The glory that is a Vera’s barbacoa taco.

There may be no more “Mexicaner” place in the United States than Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. A sprawling, steamy swath of South Texas stretching from Rio Grande City to the Gulf of Mexico, the RGV is at once urban and agricultural, Mexican and Texican.

And it is home to some of the best border food there is, bar no…