Where barbecue culture began?

Where barbecue culture began? Font83/Getty Images Getaria is home to Restaurante Elkano, currently ranked 30th best restaurant in the world Basque cuisine is an exploration of just how far wood, smoke and flame can be taken as a cooking technique when it’s expertly harnessed and applied to the finest ingredients. “Cooking over fire seems simple on the surface,” said Elena Arzak, joint head chef of the three-Michelin-starred Restaurante Arzak in San Sebastián, the birthplace of modern Basque cuisine. It’s an innate sensibility but can always be improved with practice.” Font83/Getty Images Getaria is home to Restaurante Elkano, currently ranked 30th best restaurant in the world Though it seems so refined in the hands of Arguinzoniz and his ilk, the art of the asador in the Basque Country is an egalitarian one. Ben Groundwater Grilling is one of the most delicious and primal ways of cooking “Some of the great asadores in the Basque Country began at that time,” said Arzak.