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Menuism: Barbecue Styles Across the United States: An Introduction : by Jay Ducote, BBQ Expert for the Menuism BBQ Blog Like all of the great foodways of the world, modern-day barbecue is riddled in history and culture. While the Spanish introduced the term barbacoa to Europe after discovering the technique during Columbian exploration in the Caribbean, the method of cooking meat over fire or indirect heat is as old as cavemen. Barbacoa, which ended up being synonymous with traditional Mexican barbecue, derived itself from the term barabicu which the Taino people of the Carribean used prior to Spanish conquest of the New World -- or so one story says. Many other folktales exist about the history of the term barbecue . According to one tale, French visitors of the Caribbean described the process of cooking a whole