I'm not grilling, but...

[David M. Bueker]

So my garage door is broken, thus I cannot get my grill out. So no "barbecue" (to borrow a word) for me, but I am still drinking wines worthy of the grill.

Tonight's 2005 Domaine de l'Ameillaud Côtes du Rhône Villages Cairanne just screams for a steak or burger with its dark fruit and balanced richness. I am truly sorry I can't light up.

[Bob Parsons Alberta]

David, lots of steaks when you get up here shortly! Where are you staying in Banff? Banff Springs!!

Bob/envious.

[Sue Courtney]

... no "barbecue" (to borrow a word) for me ...

So barbecue isn't in your language.
It is very much in mine - barbecue plus barbeque plus BBQ.
Chef says it is a method, but in my part of the world it is both something you cook on as well as a method of cooking.

[David M. Bueker]

I used to call any kind of grilling barbecue, but since I have spent a lot of time in the deep south (business travel) I have become sensitized to the fact that I don't barbecue. I grill. I wish I could barbecue.

I have no issue with other folks using the word.

[michael dietrich]

Well here in the northwest, some of us do differentiate between grilling and BBQ. In fact this week, for our monthly wine steward meeting I am doing pork butts and chicken thighs on my Weber smoker so we don't starve as we taste through about 50 wines. I will then have lots of things to post. I also have a Traeger pellet grill that can smoke. If I could only have one unit, this would be it. It does the most consistently moist boneless, skinless chicken breasts that I have ever had. Same thing for bone-in.