Savage Barbecue

Download or read book Savage Barbecue written by Andrew Warnes and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Starting with Columbus's journals in 1492, Warnes shows how the perception of barbecue evolved from Spanish colonists' first fateful encounter with natives roasting iguanas and fish over fires on the beaches of Cuba. European colonists linked the new food to a savagery they perceived in American Indians, ensnaring barbecue in a growing web of racist attitudes about the New World. Warnes also unearths the etymological origins of the word barbecue, including the early form barbacoa; its coincidental similarity to barbaric reinforced emerging stereotypes."--BOOK JACKET.