There is a need to use special equipment American food and fuel, has many years of experience by the chef spent several hours to be made pure taste of food. Whether US presidents and governors, writers and ranchers, and many still people, by many people's favorite dish. You will find that people actually are willing to trek hundreds of miles just to taste a distinctive flavor. In Paris, London, Hong Kong, Istanbul, or anywhere else in the world any "best" restaurant, you might not find this American cuisine. You only have to visit the Fayetteville (Fayetteville), Arkansas (Arkansas), Wilson (Wilson), NC (North Carolina), Waxahachie (Waxahatchee) or Texas (Texas) to get it.

This road most American cuisine what is? Why is rare outside the United States, in the United States is a handy delicious it?

This dish is barbecue ......

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Someone shouted. Barbecue everywhere! You see, Armenians have roast lamb, roast duck Guangzhou people, Australia has barbecue prawn. You would say, worldwide use of fire almost every culture has a barbecue. Almost gives you that right.

But we are talking about a special kind of barbecue, a mysterious use of charcoal grilled meat slowly approach, the source can be traced back a long time ago. This unusual method of cooking, the first Europeans arrived in the New World after seeing, feeling incredible.

One French person in 1564, wrote:. "As we all know, Caribbean people fishing back home, exhausted, hungry, and actually have the patience to eat fish a wooden grill two feet off the ground, attempting small, barbecue sometimes need a whole day. "said Aboriginal barbecue gallows as" babracot ", and later the Spaniards conquered the region renamed" barbacoa ".

One hundred food is too delicious

Barbecue process is long, slow, spend 12-16 hours is very common, even the most hard meat, the meat will be roasted bone crisp soft, marinated ingredients exudes the smell of incense hardwood, fabulous. North Carolina Lexington (Lexington, North Carolina) have an old man every night to his favorite "barbecue Kitchen" (barbecue joint) called the same dish every six days a week, from 15 years like a day without interruption (the restaurant closed on Sundays). Barbecue delicious people to linger, let them go, any person who tasted that feeling of hearing the story of the old man, and never be surprised.

Early European settlers quickly fell in love with this peculiar way pork. George. Washington (George Washington) became the first US president, a barbecue had not fashion. A barbecue party financing social and political integration, the United States is a typical form of recreation. However, the first US president is not the only favorite barbecue party president. The mid-1960s, people on Linden. Johnson (Lyndon Baines Johnson) hosted a barbecue in Texas already familiar luncheon busy eating and drinking half the time, half the time to talk about "official business." Until today the situation as the old, in the southern United States, large areas of the Midwest and West, barbecue and politics go hand in hand, like ...... carbon chain smoker.

George. Washington in the 18th century and today, I am afraid to eat barbecue barbecue almost US southeast coastal areas. Traditional barbecue method is whole pig cross bore, eviscerated and lay in the "oven" at the top (digging in the ground, on the home grill; also bricklayer building a terrace, or use a metal container, then place the grill ), roasted 12 hours or longer, baking process must constantly added charcoal. Some people might sprinkle some spice in the meat material, wipe a little oil. Generally, sprinkle a little Yanhua, simmered with charcoal grill will suffice. After meat cooked, succulent tender crisp, or with a knife, or with Shredded, according to preferences in different regions of the cast all kinds of spices, mix cabbage salad sandwich made of soft bread sandwiches.

Unavoidably debate

Many of purely school-person, traditional barbecue long, is the only "authentic" approach. However, almost all barbecue lovers are more or less belong to some type of purely school, they seem to think their own favorite barbecue manner unparalleled. East coast skilled barbecue master (pit master) like roast "whole pig", often look down on pork leg western North Carolina. Roast Leg of people and for Tennessee (Tennessee) of roast pork chops dismissive. Roast Pork Chop people think Kentucky (Kentucky) is not surprising roast lamb, roast lamb of people think that Texas roast beef outrageous. North Carolina A good pork leg men when it comes to Texas barbecue contempt, said: "taste good, but not what we call authentic barbecue." Of course, he has not been well-eastern leg of pork barbecue grill master praise. The latter said: "Do the whole pig, do not call the barbecue."

Barbecue lovers can almost fanatical war of words about the minutiae of any barbecue cooking something. Even aside barbecue meat material and cutting the way, the next question is, to which all kinds of wood as fuel? Southeastern United States usually hickory (hickory), but other places are inseparable from oak (oak). In Texas, people may use Prosopis (mesquite). You may also see someone with only a gas grill, do not have wood (charcoal grill called it as "gas barbecue division"). "Southern Barbecue Society for the Protection of traditional" (the Society for the Preservation of Traditional Southern Barbecue) in Smock. Pitts (Smokey Pitts) when it comes to gas grill said, "simply put the meat on the kitchen oven, made of a plate of roast pork good but

I definitely do not admit that this is barbecue! ʱ??

The next question is whether you should use an open flame oven (open grill), smoke or take cover fashion (enclosed barbecue). Closed keen on people like smoked barbecue special flavor caused by smoke after a chemical reaction with proteins on the grill pan left red "smoke ring" quite proud. But not everyone aspire to. According to barbecue expert bob. Ghana (Bob Garner) said, perfect barbecue "may be slightly smoky flavor, but not too heavy smell of smoke, as if just pulled out of the burning house." Enclosed barbecue generally very popular in Texas, Kansas and Missouri and other places , in the western cowboy barbecue manner normally used. Open grill is the style of the southeastern United States, by the traditional barbecue fans of all ages.

Another issue relates to barbecue sauce. Supermarkets generally sell barbecue sauce tomato pulp as base material, sticky, spicy taste, variety, in Kansas and other central and western regions are common. Most spices North Carolina area lighter, Pickle, just add red pepper. In South Carolina mustard barbecue sauce known. Texas Smoked Barbecue grill some mainstream beef supply simply does not offer any seasoning, if unsuspecting foreign visitors also being demanded seasoning tease.

Men's line of business

In American culinary culture, barbecue also has two unique characteristics. First, the barbecue is almost entirely a man's world, one reason is that the old-fashioned barbecue entirely based on physical strength, is hard work and dirty work, we need to cut firewood, firewood, moving firewood, charcoal shovel, for several hours a day in smoke desperately flipping meat on charcoal. But men often become barbecue connoisseur there is a very simple practical reason: "Grill is just one of the men like to do things, they like a good drink all night long," bob. Garner said.

Another interesting fact about American barbecue is that while palm furnace mostly men, but the most common is not African-American, is American of European descent. 18th Century George. Washington (George Washington) might be African-American barbecue slaves, their descendants moved westward in the 19th century brought a barbecue craft, and then spread to the northern and western states. In North Carolina and Texas area, orthodox American Continental barbecue always as powerful as ever.

In recent years, competition has become a popular activity barbecue. Barbecue players from across the United States with a variety of sophisticated, portable ovens and spices recipe aggregation Kansas City (Kandas City), Kentucky Owensboro (Owensboro), Tennessee Memphis (Memphis), play an active role in the blockbuster barbecue contest ʱ?? They open furnace sports, make good friends, to observe the operation of the master, compete various awards and trophies, you can barbecue while chatting bushel.

Outside the United States, authentic American barbecue may have nowhere to seek. In the United States, people for the authentic barbecue standards may continue to argue. Whether it is carefully roasted North Carolina "whole roasted pig", rich juicy steak smoked Georgia, Kentucky, heavy flavor roast lamb, or Kansas spicy "bifocal steak" Texas beef brisket and smoked, are considered US specialty, all delicious. A barbecue lover once said:? "The best barbecue where to find yours truly."