A Clue About BBQ
Saturday July 5, 2008
To barbecue means to slow-cook meat at a low temperature. Guess who invented the word barbecue?
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Barbecue comes to English from Spanish/Portugese from Haitian.
Iberian sailors, some say pairates, saw Haitian cooking on a large wooden grid structure, the Haitians called the structure a barbacoa.
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Mick