Review of Barbecue Defined

The Taino word Barbacoa means a stand, a four legged stand, made of sticks, used in the cooking process of roasting meat. It has many uses, as a village look out tower or used in the planting fields as a stand to chase away the animals. They used the word Barbicu' for a meat roasting process, using a fire pit and a barbacoa stand and placing upon it the roasted meat. The early Spanish confused the use of the two words and gave us barbecue.