BBQ season begins

An early summer evening…

Jacques: Time to pull the barbecue out of the shed and onto the deck.

Giselle: It’s getting a bit rusty.

Jacques: Still burns though. Pity we’ve gone vegetarian.

Giselle: Oh, we could make an exception. There’s those lamb chops that have been in the freezer since last year.

Jacques: A barbecue breakout sounds a good excuse to use them up. Deck could do with a waterblast.

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Voice-over

Barbecuing (from Native American Taino barbacoa) is cooking with a long history. Burning mainly meaty edibles over wood fires and embers. Nowadays often roasting vegetables and increasingly cooked over gas flames.