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Barbecue

Dry-Heat Cooking Methods

Barbecue is a term for cooking methods that use live fire and smoke, encompassing both the indirect low-temperature style common in the United States, where meat is smoked or roasted over wood or charcoal at roughly 116 to 138 degrees Celsius for several hours, and the direct-heat style used in much of the rest of the world, closer to grilling over hot coals or a gas fire for just a few minutes at temperatures above 260 degrees Celsius. The word traces to barabicu, a term from the Taino and other Arawakan languages of the Caribbean describing a wooden framework used to suspend meat over flames; Spanish conquistadors encountered the technique after 1492 and carried the word into Spanish, from which it entered English by the 1600s. Beyond the cooking method itself, barbecue also names the equipment used and the social gatherings built around it.

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from 1661 1
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use in modern form was in 1661, in Edmund Hickeringill's Jamaica Viewed: "Some are slain, And their flesh forthwith Barbacu'd and eat"; it also appears in 1672 in the writings of John Lederer following his travels in the North American southeast in 1669-1670.
Char Siu (Wikipedia)
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Char siu (Chinese: 叉燒; lit. 'fork roasted') is a Cantonese-style barbecued pork.
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Muckalica (Wikipedia)
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(pronounced [ˈmût͜ɕkalit͜sa]) is a Serbian dish, a stew made of barbecued meat and vegetables.
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Nyama Choma (Wikipedia)
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Nyama Choma is a specialty of grilled or barbecued goat meat or cattle meat.
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Beer can chicken (Wikipedia)
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on a throne, beer butt chicken, coq au can, dancing chicken) is a barbecued chicken dish and method of indirect grilling using a
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Boodog (Wikipedia)
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Mongolian pronunciation: [pɔːtɔk]) is a Mongolian cuisine dish of barbecued goat, mutton or Tarbagan marmot cooked with heated stones inserted
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Mixiote (Wikipedia)
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A mixiote (in Spanish: ) is a traditional pit-barbecued meat dish in central Mexico; especially in the Basin of Mexico, in
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Pulled pork (Wikipedia)
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Pulled pork is an American barbecue dish, more specifically a dish of the Southern United States, based
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Barbecue chicken (Wikipedia)
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Barbecue chicken consists of chicken parts or entire chickens that are
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Barbecue (Wikipedia)
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Barbecue or barbeque (often shortened to BBQ worldwide; barbie or barby in Australia and New Zealand) is a term used with regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods, employing live fire and smoke to cook food.
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