Where to finally start...southern food, my favorite subject. There are several cuisines in the south, food here is not the same from state to state. Barbecue is a great example. My favorite is South Carolina barbecue. And if youre ever in the Atlanta Metro area you should visit Williamson Brothers barbecue in Marietta. I originally misidentified it as South Carolina barbecue but was told by the staff that it is Alabama style barbecue. Best barbecue Ive had. Below is Wikipedias definition of barbecue: Barbecue (also barbeque, BBQ and barby/barbies) is a cooking method and apparatus. While there is a vast degree of variation and overlap in terminology and method surrounding this form of cooking, the generally accepted difference between barbecue and grilling is in the cooking time and type of heat used: grilling is generally done hot and fast over direct heat from low-smoke fuels (with the flame contacting the meat itself), while barbecuing is usually done low and slow over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels (with the flame not contacting the meat directly). The term as a noun can refer to the meat or to the cooking apparatus itself (the barbecue grill or simply barbecue). The term barbecued is used as an adjective and refers to foods cooked by this method. The term is also used as a verb for the act of cooking food in this manner. Barbecuing is usually done in an outdoor environment by smoking the meat over wood or charcoal. Restaurant barbecue may be cooked in large brick or metal ovens specifically designed for that purpose. Barbecuing has numerous regional variations in many parts of the world. Etymology Etymologists believe that barbecue derives from the word barabicu found in the language of the Taíno people of Caribbean and the Timucua of Florida, and entered European languages in the form barbacoa. Specifically, the Oxford English Dictionary traces the word back to Haiti, that translates as a framework of sticks set upon posts. Gonzalo Fernández De Oviedo y Valdés, a Spanish explorer, was the first to use the word barbecoa in print in Spain in 1526 in the Diccionario de la Lengua Española (2nd Edition) of the Real Academia Española. After Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492, the Spaniards had seemed to have found native Haitians roasting animal meat over a grill consisting of a wooden framework resting on sticks and a fire made underneath, that flames and smoke would rise and envelop the animal meat, giving it a certain flavor. Strangely enough, the same framework was used as a means of protection against the wild that may attack during middle of the night while at sleep. Traditional barbacoa involves digging a hole in the ground and placing some meat (usually a whole goat) with a pot underneath it, so that the juices can make a hearty broth. It is then covered with maguey leaves and coal and set alight. The cooking process takes a few hours. Olaudah Equiano, an African abolitionist, described this method of roasting alligators among the Mosquito People (Miskito people) on his journeys to Cabo Gracias a Dios in his narrative, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. It has been suggested that both the word and cooking technique migrated out of the Caribbean and into other languages and cultures, with the word (barbacoa) moving from Caribbean dialects into Spanish, then Portuguese, French, and English. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first recorded use of the word in the English language as a verb in 1661, in Edmund Hickeringills Jamaca Viewed: Some are slain, And their flesh forthwith Barbacud and eat. It also appears as a verb in the published writings of John Lederer, following his travels in the American southeast in 1672.[8] The first known use of the word as a noun was in 1697 by the British buccaneer William Dampier. In his New Voyage Round the World, Dampier writes: And lay there all night, upon our Borbecus, or frames of Sticks, raised about 3-foot (0.91 m) from the Ground. Samuel Johnsons 1756 dictionary gave the following definitions: To Barbecue – a term for dressing a whole hog (attestation to Pope) Barbecue – a hog dressed whole While the standard modern English spelling of the word is barbecue, local variations like barbeque and truncations such as bar-b-q or bbq may also be found. The spelling barbeque is given in Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary as a variant. In the southeastern United States, the word barbecue is used predominantly as a noun referring to roast pork, while in the southwestern states cuts of beef are often cooked. Tomorrow lets talk about regional styles of barbecue. Yum! (source: wikipedia.org)
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