Download or read book From Barbycu to Barbecue: The Untold History of an American Tradition written by Joseph R. Haynes and published by University of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning barbecue cook boldly asserts that barbecuing is a uniquely American tradition that was not imported from the Caribbean or from Spanish explorers. The origin story of barbecue is a popular topic with a ravenous audience, but commonly held understandings of barbecue are often plagued by half-truths and misconceptions. From Barbycu to Barbecue offers a fresh new look at the story of southern barbecuing. Award winning barbecue cook Joseph Haynes sets out to correct one of the most common barbecue myths, the "Caribbean Origins Theory," which holds that barbecue was imported from the Caribbean to what is today the American South. Rather, Haynes argues, the whole hog barbecue that came to define the American tradition developed via direct and indirect collaboration between Native Americans, Europeans, and enslaved Africans in the seventeenth century. Haynes's barbycu-to-barbecue history analyzes historical sources throughout the Americas that show that southern barbecuing is as unique to the United States as Jamaican jerked hog is to Jamaica and barbacoa is to Mexico. A recipe in each chapter provides a contemporary interpretation of a historical technique.