Love of Smoke and Fire: A Short History of Barbecue!

The Delicious Legacy

Hello!

When did the word 'Barbecue' appeared in our language?

As a technique it has been used under various guises from all humans, throughout the planet...

This early appearance from 1709:

I have been often in their Hunting-Quarters, where a roasted or barbakued Turkey, eaten with Bears Fat, is held a good Dish;

Or this from 1707 "The Three Pigs of Peckham, Broiled Under an Apple Tree"

...the white folks of Peckham, Jamaica, had “their English appetites so deprav’d and vitiated” by rum that they desired “a Litter of Pigs nicely cook’d after the West Indian manner.” Three hogs were placed on a wooden frame over coals, and “the best part of the town of Peckham” turned out to watch and to eat, “expressing as much Joy in the Looks and Actions, as a Gang of wild Cannibals who, when they have taken a Stranger, first dance round him, and afterwards devour him.”

Can we say that every technique that uses fire and smoke, even if it's spit roasting or grilling to a degree, constitutes a barbecuing technique?

And what is that we find so attractive so convivial?

Listen, and get hungry!

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