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barbacoa
Taíno · pre-1500s
"a raised cooking frame"
a raised wooden framework for cooking or sleeping
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Stage 2 of 3
barbacoa
Spanish · 1500s
"a method of slow-cooking meat"
adopted from Caribbean peoples for a method of cooking meat
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Stage 3 of 3
barbecue
English · 1600s
"grilled or slow-cooked meat, or the event"
spread through English colonial contact in the Caribbean and Americas
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