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More Barbecue History
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The History of Barbecue in the South - The roads of the Southern United
States are lined with a succession of grinning pigs, advertising the
availability of barbecue in countless restaurants. The origins of barbecue in
the South, however, are traceable to a period long before the smiling pig
became a fixture on Southern roadsides. The etymology of the term is vague,
but the most plausible theory states that the word "barbecue" is a derivative
of the West Indian term "barbacoa," which denotes a method of slow-cooking
meat over hot coals. Bon Appetit magazine blithely informs its readers
that the word comes from an extinct tribe in Guyana who enjoyed "cheerfully
spit roasting captured enemies.
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BBQ history: barbecue - History of BBQ, barbecue, cooking meat over a fire
is surely one of mankind's earliest cooking feats. How did different regional
specialties develop? And what's the deal with BBQ, anyway?
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Brief History of North Carolina Pulled-Pork barbecue - The United States
Department of Agriculture says barbecue is any meat "cooked by the direct
action of heat resulting from the burning of hardwood or the hot coals there
from for a sufficient period to assume the usual characteristics" including
the formation of a brown crust and a weight loss of at least thirty percent.
Hmmm, that means Mother Nature made the first barbecue as the accidental
by-product of some ancient forest fire. And, man has been eating the delicious
stuff in one form or another to satisfy his carnivorous appetite ever since.
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