The Barbecue In Barbecue Sauce Part 1

Barbecue is a particularly western ritual. Though there are variations on the theme worldwide the preoccupation with summer barbecue seems to be a truly American (both North and South) pastime. It is hard to imagine going to a picnic, a family reunion, a church gathering, or even a county fair without imagining the smell of meat mixed with smoke and some type of barbecue sauce.

The general consensus is that the term barbecue (or barbeque) derives from a group of people called the Taino in the Caribbean, who called their version "barbacoa", meaning "sacred fire pit." The Taino dug a pit and placed a pot on the bottom to catch the dripping juices of the meat that cooked above it. Coals and leaves of the maguey tree were then lit and a couple of hours later, there would be a great feast. Sounds something like your backyard last weekend, doesn't it?

This was a long-standing tradition which was met with great approval by the European explorers who did not know how to barbecue and found this, among other truly American specialties like sugar, rum and tobacco, to be a wonderfully satisfying experience. As the settlers began to move northward from the Caribbean to the mainland US they took this cooking style with them. It is notable that for quite a long time barbecue and barbecue sauce was a uniquely "Southern" experience, likely born of the proximity to the islands of the Caribbean.

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