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Former President Bush's Barbecue Diplomacy
At the peak of outdoor barbecue in August, former President Buyi would choose this opportunity to return to his ranch in Texas for vacation, and develop the family-style backyard barbecue into his diplomatic weapon, entertain visiting foreign leaders, and become an alternative "state banquet".

This stunt of Bush is obviously effective in diplomatic mediation. Former Israeli Prime Minister Sharon and former Colombian President Uribe have both experienced his barbecue diplomacy and "talked about serious issues easily" in Bush's 1600 acre ranch. In addition, Bush also invited Chinese President to visit his manor.

Bush used outdoor barbecue to entertain state guests, which is actually the "founding tradition" of the United States. In 1793, when Washington, the father of the United States, placed the cornerstone of the Capitol, the founding fathers who participated in the groundbreaking ceremony gathered outdoors to hold a barbecue meeting and ate 227 kilograms of beef. For more than 200 years, outdoor barbecue has formed a typical American culture. It is a three-pronged confrontation with hot dogs and apple pie. It is a favorite "national food" of Americans and is rooted in American life. 

Baked $3.1 billion a year
The United States has a wide living space and a sufficient source of livestock. It is obviously a logical American cuisine to have a barbecue in the open air. Americans like the procedure of outdoor barbecue, which is hard for people in other countries to imagine. At present, 76% of American families have barbecue grills, and the estimated value of food roasted in the backyard every year is as high as $3.1 billion.

The barbecue grill used by Americans is an important series of consumer products, ranging from simple circular boilers to high-end ovens worth thousands of yuan. But in the first 200 years of the founding of the United States, the form of barbecue was very simple, completely the rough style of the New World. Using slow-burning wood blocks as fuel, large pieces of meat were hung on the fire for barbecue. The method was rough, and everyone was sweating when sitting around the fire in midsummer.



Milestones of the American phenomenon
The outdoor barbecue became a milestone of the American phenomenon and was the end of the Second World War. At that time, millions of ex-servicemen returned to their hometown to marry and have children and establish families. In order to meet the needs of this new housing, a large number of new communities have sprung up in the suburbs, and the backyard of each house is designed to be suitable for families to eat outdoors. As long as the host yells, the neighbors will get together to eat barbecue and drink beer.

Outdoor barbecue has also made subtle contributions to the breakthrough of American men's chauvinism. Half a century ago, cooking was a woman's business, but by the 1950s, outdoor barbecue was popular across the United States, and many cooking books appeared in bookstores, "inducing" American men to wear aprons and stand in front of the backyard grill to take the responsibility of chef. These books emphasize that when men are the chef of outdoor barbecue, they just show their manhood.

Yang Pin's General Food Kitchen Recipe said that cave men in the Stone Age used fire to roast tiger meat and ate it with large bites, while men turned over beef patties in the backyard, which is the modern version of cave men.



The "Picture-text Recipe" published by Life magazine also encourages men to give their wives the patent of exquisite delicacies to cook in the kitchen and insist that women should not interfere in outdoor barbecue. At that time, the newspaper published a picture of President Eisenhower's barbecue, and the towering five-star general turned over the barbecue with a big fork. This scene further promoted the trend of men's barbecue.