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BBQ-ed out
Written by oliviawallwork
With the hot weather this week comes the inevitable smell of burning coal and charred sausages pretty much everywhere you go. It seems everyone loves a good BBQ and when the sun comes out as much as it has this week, well, there is no excuse not to have one! My friends and I have most certainly be making the most of the July heatwave, which has amounted to me having three BBQs in less than 24hours. Now, I love a BBQ as much as the next sun-celebrating-English, but I have had one too many sausages in a roll with tomato ketchup… Now, in my sun-soaked, BBQ-ed out head I have started wondering where exactly the barbecue came from!
Possible origins of the word
– Taíno people of the Caribbean and the Timucua of Florida used the word barabicu meaning ‘sacred fire pit’
– The Spanish, upon arriving in the Caribbean, referred to the Caribbean style of cooking over smoking wood as barbacoa
Although a traditionally America style of cooking food, countries across the world have their own style of barbecuing such as the thin strips of meat served with rice in Korea or asado in Argentina.
So if you too, like me, are maybe feeling like you’ve had one too many BBQs recently, how about trying BBQ style for another country? Or just leaving a few days in between your BBQs…