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."
I buy my own BBQ.
Sure...no one cooked over fire until native americans and Africans came along.
Now give it back!
Wow. What crap. I’ll never get that two minutes of my life back.
We HAD to take it away from then - they weren’t doing it right ;’)
Really Guardian?
Seems to me that Abraham in the Old Testament is recorded as having had what amounted to a BBQ for distinguished visitors that he didn’t know were distinguished..
..it was the day that he was told by God that his wife would conceive and bear a son..
So why do they continue voting for those who enslave them?
Manifest spare ribs.
There are a lot of racists in the world, and they see everything, and I mean EVERYTHING through a prism of race.
All I can say is, it sucks to be them, and it sucks to be a sucker who buys into it.
Stupid leftists. It must be a real bitch to live in their heads!
Sorry, uh, Twitty. (is that your real name?). My "guilt" card and my "sympathy" card are overdrawn and expired. But "disgust" card has plenty of miles to go.
Michael Twitty stole his brain from a dumpster
behind a French cheese shop.
“stole”? WTF?
Hey Michael, I stole beer from the ancient Egyptians. Sue me.
i was going to say- the original settlers cooked their food in general electric ovens...
Indians and Negroes
Found it, Genesis 18:6-8.
It’s a BBQ.
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