Where does the word BBQ come from
Have you noticed that “barbeque” has been spelled in many different ways? “BBQ,” “barbeque,” ”bar-b-q” or “barbecue”. Whatever the spelling may be, millions of people will attest to the goodness of BBQ's aroma and taste. It is very popular and almost everybody is trying to innovate something new with it.
According to the website Red, Hot & Blue BBQ, the word barbecue devolves from Taino, a pre-Columbian Caribbean language, the native method described by the word — the slow drying of sliced, spiced meat, over a low, smoky fire — seems to have been fairly widespread in the eastern Caribbean at the time of European contact, being practiced in what would become Brazil as well as in what would become Virginia. But it was in Virginia and in the Carolinas that barbecue as we know it would begin to evolve. In Virginia, British colonists observed the Native American method of drying meat on a grill of green sticks over a smoking fire and soon married this method to their own interest in spit-cooking hogs and other small animals. The British introduced their own native practices; including basting — either with butter or with vinegar — keep meats from drying while cooking.
And the rest they say is history ….
Whatever you call it, BBQ, Barbecue, Barbeque? I call it plan good eatin!
Mr House, I was lucky enough to get to hear you speak at the O.C. Fair. Your talk rekindiled my interest in outdoor cooking and using my Dutch oven. My son and I went through Boy Scouts together where we first learned to use Dutch ovens. I’ve watched scouts make stews, cobblers, cinnimon buns, lobster and baked alaska. We’ve even made entire meals for the troop by stacking multiple pots to maximize the heat from the coals.
I loved your idea of using my gas barbecue to heat the dutch oven. My suggestion is to explore the possabilities of baking in the dutch oven using the gas barbecue since it would be easier to regulate the temperature and experiment with techniques for cooking entire meals using D.O.s. I am guessing that I should be able to take my crock pot cook book and easily adapt the recipes to my dutch Oven.
P.S. Thankyou for the 100 tips.
Dan Kveen
Dan,
Thank you for the compliments! I really appreciate them! So glad you enjoyed the demonstration, I had a lot of fun being there. I hope they invite me back next year!
Even though you posted this under the wrong post 🙂 I’ll will add it to the contest because its a great idea!
Thank you
Gary