Where did the word bbq originate?

Answer 1

There is controversy here. BBQ is claimed to originate in the USA, and when spoken of there it is considered an art form. Claims of discovery are widespread the world over.

The idea itself, the roasting of meat over hot coals has been practiced since man discovered fire. The addition of flavorings is not new either. The Romans and Greeks were said to have mixed oils and lemon, thyme and rosemary to drizzle over roasting meat long before Texans were, well, Texans. The Chinese can claim BBQ in some form of their own having cooked over hot coals and slow fires long before America was discovered. Duck, chicken and suckling pig were presented to rulers of China for thousands of years. Polynesians have been doing luau as celebratory feasts for many hundreds of years and that too is a form of BBQ.

Answer 2

Origin of the Barbecue

No one can clearly say where the barbecue originated from. Some say it came from Africa. African tribes used stone, like furnaces to cook their meals.

Others simply say it was invented when man invented fire. Cooked Meat was tastier and easier to digest than raw meat.

The earliest compound dish was a crude paste that came about by the Roman Legions, made by mixing water with cracked kernels and simple heating. This is where charcoal grill cooking came about.

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Answer 3

The word was adopted from the Arawak Indians of the Caribbean by the Spanish as 'barbacoa'. The Indians used this method to cook or dry strips of meat over a slow fire using pieces of green wood

Answer 4

bbq stands for barbecue which has been a grill for cooking over an open fire since 1931 but it came from the American spanish word barbacoa as early as 1657 which meant any meal of roasted meat or fish & it reached spanish even before that from the arawak Indian language of Haiti in which barbakoa meant a raised framework of sticks for either curing meat or sleeping on

Answer 5

Probably originated with American Indians somewhere round Central America and Carribean islands. The word barbecue comes to the English language via Spanish from a word pronounced as "barabicu" in the Indian languages at the time. It predates Europeans appearing in the Americas.

Answer 6

No one knows the exact origin of the barbecue, nor who invented it. The Taino Indian have the word "barbacoa", for "meat smoking apparatus" and the French have "Barbe a queue" for "whiskers to tail", but the origins of the word barbecue is also unknown, but may give some clues to where it originated. In America, however, it originated in the late 1800s and used during the Western cattle drives.

Answer 7

When slaves where given left over meat for their meals, they would re-cook the meat rying to make it more edible. They would use different suaces and cooking methods and BBQ was invented.

Answer 8

It was a method of preparing cheaper cuts of meat while making them tender.