Barbecue (1695?); "Big Apple" and Jake Byer

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"BIG APPLE" AND JAKE BYER

   "Peter Quince" was an extremely popular horse.  The name is from William Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.  I checked the full text NEW YORK TIMES for that name with the keyword "race."  The first hit that shows up is 1907, and there are 121 hits for "Peter Quince."  Perhaps "quince" is not "apple" and perhaps Shakespeare wasn't Irish, but whatever.
   Most interesting is a NEW YORK TIMES full text check for "Jake Byer."  The first hit is from New Orleans in 1920!  Exactly the time John J. Fitz Gerald was also in New Orleans (as I reported 11 years ago).

   22 January 1920, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 18:
_TRAINER'S LICENSE REVOKED BY JUDGES_
_Jake Byer Disciplined by New Orleans Officials--Bar His Horses from Races._

   Not only that, but there's a photo of Jake Byer at age 85, and it's not from ancient history, either...

   17 September 1969, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 41:
_Jake Byer, at 85, Still Follows Form Charts at Belmont_
_Ex-Trainer on Hand for 100th Running of Jerome Today_
(...)
(Photo caption--ed.)  Jake Byer, retired trainer, figuring winners at Belmont

   As I said 11 years ago, Byer (although certainly not alive) might have had children.  Those children might be alive.  Their fathers records might be lying in an attic.  I've begged 11 years for the NEW YORK TIMES to run an article on New York City's history.  Silence=Death.

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BARBECUE

   This is a late translation, but "barbecue" is an important word.


Call # HEA (Berkel, A. van. Adriaan van Berkel's Travels in South America)
Author Berkel, Adriaan van.
Title Adriaan van Berkel's Travels in South America between the Berbice and Essequibo rivers and in Surinam, 1670-1689, translated and edited by Walter Edmund Roth, 1925.
Imprint Georgetown, British Guiana, The "Daily chronicle," ltd., 1941 [i. e. 1942]
LOCATION  CALL #  STATUS
  Humanities-Genrl Res   HEA (Berkel, A. van. Adriaan van Berkel's Travels in South America)
Location Humanities-Genrl Res
Descript 2 p. l., xvi p., 2 l., 145, v p. plates, fold. map. 22 cm.
Series The "Daily chronicle's" Guiana edition of reprints and original works dealing with all phases of life in British Guiana. Ed. by Vincent Roth. [No. 2]
Note Series in part at head of t.-p.
 On cover: 2d impression, 1942.
 "Appeared serially in the 'Daily chronicle' newspaper during 1926-27."--Foreword.
 Translation of Amerikaansche voyagien.
Subject Guyana -- Description and travel.
 Suriname -- Description and travel.
 Berbice River (Guyana)
Add'l name Roth, Walter E. (Walter Edmund), 1861?-1933, ed. and tr.

Page 23:
   Be it a hare, rabbit, hog, deer, etc., the hair is burnt off, the guts washed and the meat laid on a _berbekot_.  This is an Indian grid of little wooden sticks about two feet high.  On this they place their food, flesh, or fish, without salting it; and being half done roasted, they crumble it into the pepper-pot to eat at once or to keep for a more convenient time, because the pepper-pot is the only recourse.