
BBQ — Act 1
The word barbecue began as a piece of furniture, not a flavor. A Taíno preservation rack called barabicu kept meat from rotting within hours in Caribbean heat, and the smoke compounds that did the work are antimicrobial


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The word barbecue began as a piece of furniture, not a flavor. A Taíno preservation rack called barabicu kept meat from rotting within hours in Caribbean heat, and the smoke compounds that did the work are antimicrobial

The word barbecue came from a piece of furniture. Roman introduces BBQ — a four-part series on the hidden history of America's most argued-over food. Four acts, starting Sunday July 5th.

What Didn't End in 1353: The Second Plague Pandemic ran from 1347 to 1815, and a Sicilian child born in the generation of the American Revolution grew up with the Black Death as a present danger. Humans cannot acquire lo

The Statute Nobody Could Enforce: Farm wages doubled in England and stayed doubled for 450 years. The Statute of Laborers tried to freeze wages at 1346 levels and failed fastest where no one was watching — while a Westmi

The Thing Itself: Where the plague actually came from (Kyrgyz cemeteries, 1338 tombstones, severe drought), why the Caffa catapult story is almost certainly fiction, and what we know — and don't know — about the pathogen

The Black Death did not create the pressure that broke medieval Europe — it revealed pressure that had been building for three centuries inside a social order built on surplus labor. The cities that organized Jewish mass

1347: What the Plague Built — Teaser: The plague killed half of Europe in two years. The disease is gone. What it built is not. Roman introduces 1347: What the Plague Built — a four-part series on what the Black Death le

The Prisoner's Strait: Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz every few years and never does — because forty percent of its own government revenue transits the same six miles of water. This act covers the IRGC swar

The Oil Trap: In May 1908, an engineer in the Persian foothills ignored a telegram telling him to shut down and kept drilling. The gusher he struck set off a chain reaction that runs unbroken to the present: Churchill's

The Route to India: Britain didn't come to the Persian Gulf for the Gulf — it came to protect the passage to India, and it built an entire political order to do it. This act covers how calling Arab sailors 'pirates' beca

Four thousand years ago, Bahrain's merchants calibrated their scales to Indian standards — not Mesopotamian ones. That detail reveals who organized Gulf trade and why: the same tectonic collision that built the oil reser

Pulse: Origins investigates the forces that shaped the modern world. Each series takes one story — a strait, a plague, a document, a decision — and traces it from its origin to the present day. The stories underneath the
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