Now that summer is here in the Northern Hemisphere, it's time for much of the English-speaking world to engage in one of its favorite summertime pastimes: grilling. However, like all traditions in the age of high technology and wireless Internet service, this ancient method of preparing food is constantly being updated to keep up with modern technology and tastes. With a mobile broadband account, you can find new grilling recipes and techniques to make you the hit of any summer party.
Grilling as we now understand it likely has its roots in the earliest food preparation techniques of human civilization. Almost every culture has some sort of dish where food is roasted over an open flame, from the "pollo a la brasa" of Latino culture to the kebabs of Arab cuisine. Believe it or not, every time you fire up that grill you are engaging in a ritual that represented one of the foremost achievements of civilization at that time: the discovery of fire. The so-called "Maillard reaction," which explains much of the flavor of grilled meat, seems to be evolutionarily hard-wired into our brains and suggests that there is something that is just "meant to be" about cooking meat over an open flame.
Much of the grilling activity in the U.S. has become conflated with "barbecue," a preparation of meat found in much of the midwestern and Southern U.S. In these areas, grilling can vary by type of meat (pork is popular in most parts of the South, while beef is big in Texas) and sauce (sauce is hardly used at all in Texas, while Kansas City's sauce is perhaps the best-known grilling accompaniment in the country). Aside from what is generally known more or less strictly as "barbecue," other popular grilled items include Italian sausages in areas with high populations of Italian descendants, such as the Northeast, and grilled fish in the Northwestern U.S. The home barbecue came about in the 20th century after the invention of the home grill as well as the move of many people from urban settings into suburban settings with backyards.
With wireless Internet, however, these days there is no need to confine oneself to the grilling traditions of one's region. Although you can spend your summer comparing people's hamburger and hot dog recipes, it might be time for some new ideas for the old grill. Things like quesadillas and even pizza can be cooked on grills with the proper techniques. Many people are grilling fruit these days, including bananas and peaches, finding that the Maillard reaction produces interesting and delicious tastes from the sugars in these fruits too. Even more adventurous grillers are using ingredients such as haloumi cheese, a strong, thick Greek cheese which won't melt even when placed directly on the grill, along with eggs and even pound cakes, whose butter helps them stand up to the grilling process.
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