Have you noticed that \u201cbarbeque\u201d has been spelled in many different ways? \u201cBBQ,\u201d \u201cbarbeque,\u201d \u201dbar-b-q\u201d or “barbecue”. Whatever the spelling may be, millions of people\u00a0will attest to the goodness of\u00a0BBQ's aroma and taste. It\u00a0is very popular\u00a0and almost everybody is trying to innovate something new with it.<\/p>\n
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 \u2014 the slow drying of sliced, spiced meat, over a low, smoky fire \u2014 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 \u2014 either with butter or with vinegar \u2014 keep meats from drying while cooking.<\/p>\n
And the rest they say is history ….<\/p>\n
Whatever you call it, BBQ, Barbecue, Barbeque? I call it plan good eatin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Where does the word BBQ come from Have you noticed that \u201cbarbeque\u201d has been spelled in many different ways? \u201cBBQ,\u201d \u201cbarbeque,\u201d \u201dbar-b-q\u201d or “barbecue”. Whatever the spelling may be, millions of people\u00a0will attest to the goodness of\u00a0BBQ’s aroma and taste. It\u00a0is very popular\u00a0and almost everybody is trying to innovate something new with it. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[50,598,5360,760],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grilling-recipes-tips-and-techniques","tag-barbecue","tag-barbeque","tag-bbq","tag-bbq-history"],"yoast_head":"\n