Barbecue Origins

No one knows for sure where was barbecue invented and who invented it. There is a chance that the term comes from the Taino Indian word barbacoa, which means meat-smoking apparatus. Another possibility is for the word comes from the French expression barbe a queue, meaning whiskers to tail. However, in America, barbecue is originated in the late years of the 19th century during Western cattle drives. The cowboys used to consume tough and stringy pieces of meat, often brisket, that required to be cooked for seven hours before it could be eaten