How to pronounce“boucan”in English
So, the French colony in Saint-Domingue began in the 17th century as a pirate outpost. And its original French inhabitants made their living selling leather and a kind of smoked
beef called boucan. All that beef actually came from cattle left behind by the Spanish, who were the first Europeans to settle the island.
But anyway, after 1640, the boucan-sellers started to run low on beef. And they were like, “You know what would pay better than selling beef jerky? Robbing Spanish galleons,”
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Definitions of “boucan”
Alternative spelling of buccan.
“These savages were so fond of this cookery, and of such endurance, that an Indian returning from the chase, fatigued and hungry, would often wait patiently by the boucan, or as they called it, the barbecu, the best part of a day, until a fish […]”