As part of our ongoing series for national candy month we turn to 19 century Brazil where candies served as a popular street food.
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As part of our ongoing series for national candy month we turn to 19 century Brazil where candies served as a popular street food.
As part of our series for national candy month, let’s take historic looks at sweets in colonial Latin America. Women known as dulceras roamed the streets of urban centers with platters of sweets for sale carried on their heads.
From the 1490s to 1700 the Iberian scramble to exploit the land and labor of the Americas led to cross cultural contacts between Amerindians, Europeans, and Africans. The subsequent intercultural interaction transformed the foodways of Columbia In general and the Pacific coasts specifically.
This week I'm teaming up with Chef Rey Guerrero a native of the Pacific coast of Colombia a region historically inhabited by Afro Colombians. We are both traveling to Northwestern University to discuss Afro Pacific foodways using our respective expertise.
This scene of a woman selling plantains could be in nineteenth century West or Central Africa, Brazil or Columbia.
Food preferences in colonial Colombia cannot be explained without a discussion of the transformation in Old World foodways during the Colombian exchange and in the Americas where creole culture emerged from below not from above. Spanish Colonial elites influenced but did control the development of Columbia's foodways.
