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Compiled, and with Notes, by Dave DeWitt Most people believe that barbecue originated in America relatively recently in the history of food. Nothing could be further from the truth, as we can observe in the print above from medieval Italy. If that isn’t barbecue in its purest form, than I just don’t know what barbecue is but meat cooked over …
By Parthenia Antoinette Hague Then there were the annual barbecues that each and all planters gave without fail to their slaves when the crops had all been laid by, which semi-holiday weeks embraced the last of July and the first of August. I remember in particular one barbecue roast that I witnessed one night in company with the household. The …
By Robert Francis Astrop Ye who love good eating, just go to a ‘Cue—Ye’ll find and enjoy it there, I warrant you. Who ever went there and ne’er got enough?Who ever went there and found the meat tough?Who ever went there and came mad away?Who ever went there, and kept steady all day? Who ever went there, discontent er distrest—Who …
By John James Audubon, 1897 Beargrass Creek, which is one of the many beautiful streams of the highly cultivated and happy State of Kentucky, meanders through a deeply shaded growth of majestic beechwoods, in which are interspersed various species of walnut, oak, elm, ash, and other trees, extending on either side of its course. The spot on which I witnessed …
