Jamaica: A Brief History of Jerk Pork
Edited by Dave DeWitt Editor’s Note: Mostly using the incredible resource of Google Books, I’ve compiled a chronological history of jerk pork from primary sources. Also, in early Jamaica, a “barbecue” was also a flat surface, usually made of stone or paved, where coffee beans, ginger root, and pimento berries were air-dried. “Jamaican pigs were far better tasting, more nourishing, …
A Texas Barbecue, 1882
By Alexander Edwin Sweet and John Armoy Knox Accompanied by the reporter, we left San Antonio in the gray dawn of a summer morning. The reporter was going to Eagle Pass on professional business, and we agreed to travel together. First, however, it was necessary that the reporter should attend a barbecue, held some ten miles from the city. The …
Gargantuan Georgia Barbecues, 1897
By John R. Watkins, Photos by Howe, Atlanta, Georgia No one who has had the good fortune to attend a barbecue will ever forget it. The smell of it all, the meat slowly roasting to a delicious brown over smoking fires, the hungry and happy crowds waiting in patience until the spits are turned for the last time, and …
An Ohio Barbecue, 1833
By Robert and Mary Steele The second election of General Jackson to the Presidency was celebrated in Dayton on the 8th of January, 1833, by a barbecue on the common west of the basin, now Cooper Park. National salutes were fired during the day. Immediately on the arrival at noon of a canal-boat with from fifty to one hundred …