Posted on 07/04/2015 12:41:50 PM PDT by rightistight
To celebrate July 4, the Guardian published an article to tell the people of America that one of their favorite ways of cooking, barbecue, was stolen from enslaved Africans and Native Americans.
The article is titled, "Barbecue is an American tradition – of enslaved Africans and Native Americans" and was written by Michael Twitty, who calls himself a culinary historian.
"The traditional holiday cookout has its roots in the cooperation between black and indigenous peoples struggling to get or keep their freedom from colonialists," Twitty's secondary headline reads.
"If America is about people creating new worlds based on rebellion against oppression and slavery," he writes, "then barbecue is the ideal dish: it was made by enslaved Africans with inspiration and contributions from Native Americans struggling to maintain their independence."
However, according to Twitty, Europeans took the credit from Africans: "The common cultural narrative of barbecue, however, exclusively assigns its origins to Native Americans and Europeans... Some American barbecue masters have taken to attributing the innovation of barbecue to their German and Czech ancestors."
The truth is, however, "Enslaved Africans and Native Americans had a lot in common, culinarily-speaking: they had been cooking and eating in similar ways. despite [sic] an ocean between their civilizations. It only makes sense that, when their foodways, crops, cooking methods and systems of preservation, hunting, fishing and food storage collided, that there would be deep similarities and convergences of technique, method and skill."
That led to barbecue. And in the Americans, "enslaved men became barbecue’s master chefs." If indeed whites added anything to barbecue, they just "added to a base created by black hands forged in the crucible of slavery."
Twitty concludes, "Barbecue is laced with the aspiration of freedom, but it was seasoned and flavored by the people who could not enjoy any freedom on Independence Day for almost a century."
We also stole pizza from the Italians, Octoberfest from the Germans, Tacos from the Mexicans, sushi from the Japanese, boomerangs from the Australians, ballet and half the words of our language from the French, caviar from the Russians, the alphabet from the Arabs, gun powder from the Chinese...
We're a bunch of thieves.
Get over it, moron.
What a crock! African Americans still have barbecue. I just bought some from one of them because it’s raining cats & dogs here, and I can’t keep my pit lit.
I used to really enjoy kicking the shi’ite out of big mouth brits...
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Sorry I have to call BS on this. People have been cooking over fire for several thousand years and while there may some unique things on Bar B Q in the U.S. I know others surely have had their version of it.
Did whitey barbecue humans?
I agree about the borscht. LOL
The Guardian forgot about that story in the Torah of the celebrative father cooking a fatted calf for a returned son.
Ain’t that some kind of bar-b-q?
Hence my comment.
There's a simple solution to that. Lets start a TWITTER account: #give back the bar-b-q.....
Now how easy was that?
Bah, if you watched the riots in Ferguson and Baltimore you’d have seen many blacks stealing BBQs.
Twit has an exaggerated view of the importance of barbecue. It’s not exactly a national treasure. It’s merely one of many foods available. Apparently he has an exaggerated view of ‘most everything.
Twit has an exaggerated view of the importance of barbecue. It’s not exactly a national treasure. It’s merely one of many foods available. Apparently he has an exaggerated view of ‘most everything.
Where do they come up with this crap? What’s next—whites never heard of fire until they encountered American Indians and Africans?
Hey Guardian, don’t drag Indians into your latest hate-America rant, we’re not taking the bait.
I know, I know Edison was all a dream he really did not run test after test until he found a filament that worked. It was really his black janitor that pointed him in the right direction.
Read a Tesla biography. Edison was a very nasty character.
Not only Genesis, but Exodus is FULL of BBQ, starting with the Passover.
The Pascal Lamb had to be roasted over a fire.
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