Buccan, also spelled boucan, is the native South American and Caribbean name for a wooden framework or hurdle on which meat was slow-roasted or smoked over a fire. Spanish colonists called the same process barbacoa, a word that later gave English barbecue.
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Buccan or Boucan is the native South American and Caribbean name for a wooden framework or hurdle on which meat was slow-roasted or smoked over a fire.
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