[Sca-cooks] A Question of Spit Roasting....

[johnna holloway]

OED may say 1661 but the word origin is
Spanish barbacoa, of Arawak //Taino origin.
The interesting question would be what do the
Spanish sources say or what and when did the
term appear in print in Spanish sources?
John Mariani says that the word was in use
in the America prior to that and that it first
appeared in prinmt here in 1655.

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

Nancy Kiel wrote:
You might BBQ meat that you wanted to smoke or dry, or BBQ a

> whole animal.  Remember this is a New World technique, the first reference
> being 1661.  Nowadays broiling is just top heat (e.g. creme brulee).
> Cooking something in an oven is baking.
>
> Nancy Kiel