Cooking over an open fire was invented by our early ancestors because they found out by accident that cooked food tastes better then raw. This was the origin of the barbecue pit. Different peoples improved this method of cooking. The most common method of barbecuing for the most part we owe to the Native Americans because many of our earliest settlers adopted much of this way for their own. Barbecuing actually came into use extensively in North Carolina, and then spread its way into Texas an