Editing Barbecue (section)

== Associations ==

Because the word ''barbecue'' came from native groups, Europeans gave it "savage connotations".<ref name="Warnes2008">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HLhD_lIRatsC|title=Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America's First Food|last=Warnes|first=Andrew|publisher=University of Georgia Press|year=2008|isbn=9780820328966}}</ref>{{rp|24}} This association with barbarians and "savages" is strengthened by [[Edmund Hickeringill]]'s work ''Jamaica Viewed: with All the Ports, Harbours, and their Several Soundings, Towns, and Settlements'' through its descriptions of [[Human cannibalism|cannibalism]]. However, according to Andrew Warnes, there is very little proof that Hickeringill's tale of cannibalism in the Caribbean is even remotely true.<ref name="Warnes2008" />{{rp|32}} Another notable false depiction of cannibalistic barbecues appears in [[Theodor de Bry]]'s ''Great Voyages'', which in Warnes's eyes, "present smoke cookery as a custom quintessential to an underlying savagery [...] that everywhere contains within it a potential for cannibalistic violence".<ref name="Warnes2008" />{{rp|36}} Today, people in the US associate barbecue with "classic Americana".<ref name="Warnes2008" />{{rp|3}}