Thank The Native Americans For Your Barbecue Sauce

Native Americans were in North America for thousands of years before the European settlers arrived to discover the new world. Their immense knowledge of the land helped them produce and use all that it had to offer. When Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto arrived in the Caribbean he saw the natives cooling game meats over open fire on wooden racks. He gave the practice the term "Barbacoa," which was an adaptation of an Arwak Indian word, which meant, "to cook over coals." This was the beginning of an American obsession with grilling and an industry of barbecue sauce and barbecue supplies that is growing still today.

While we hear so much about Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims who arrived at Plymouth to have the great feast with the Indian tribes of the Northeast, we rarely hear about De Soto and his experience with the grilling. While we all love that turkey and cranberry sauce during the holiday season, we Americans absolutely adore our outdoor grilling slathered in some kind of barbecue sauce. We love it so much that we even grill our turkeys sometimes for Thanksgiving! The discovery of the outdoor grilling is truly much more significant in many ways than the great Pilgrim story we are all so familiar with.

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