Even the ubiquitous beef barbecue is not eaten plain but is piled with scallions and other vegetable condiments and wrapped in frilly lettuce leaves.

Slow-cooked pork and beef barbecue, crab cakes, potato chips, and chocolate chip cookies are distinctively American foods.

Diners at Genghis Khan (27 East Gulf, Schaumburg; 312-882-8920) create their own version of Mongolian beef barbecue by choosing from more than 20 vegetable offerings.

Just the beef barbecue.

Unlike the typical beef barbecue, "Actopan-style" barbecue consist of sheep meat slowly cooked in an underground grill.

Israelis from Argentina are famous for their beef barbecues; many American Israelis lovingly celebrate Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July many decades after leaving the United States.

Kansas Citians and Texans have no reason to, focusing as they do on beef barbecue.

Mr. Hookins has fed thousands of victims over the last five weeks on a menu of beef barbecue, chicken dumplings, stew, hot dogs, sloppy Joes and spaghetti.

While the Koryo Hotel is short on light and heat, its first-floor restaurant still serves an impressive bulgogi, a traditional Korean beef barbecue.

On Thursday, to celebrate American independence, she's inviting the family to her house for American beef barbecue and Lebanese dishes like kibbeh and tabbouleh.