Barbicoa

Beginnings of BBQ

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Barbecue is said to originate in the caribbean, but the term Barbecue is derived from the French word Barbicoa. Barbicoa is said to mean, ?the stick with four legs and many sticks of wood on top to place the cooking meat?. The process is explained as placing meat on green wooden sticks, which were named barbacoa, over an open fire. The Taino tribe, which was one of many Arawak tribes, say that the word Barbecue comes from the their language. The words Ba, Ra, Bi, and Cu, are separate words in the Tiano language and when put together mean, ?The beginning place of the sacred fire? and that ?Tiano Barabicoa? means, ?stick stand with four legs and many sticks of wood on top to place the cooking meat?.

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European settlers aquired this technique despite nearly wiping out the Tiano people. In its modified form, it is now one of the major styles of cooking in the United States.

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Barbecue: Barbecue, (also spelled barbeque, or abbreviated BBQ) is a method of cooking food with the radiant heat and/or hot gasses of a fire, the cooking of food in a sauce that includes vinegar, the end-result of cooking by one of these methods, or a party that includes such food. Barbecue is usually cooked...

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