All tagged #Foodways
Romans controlled the Iberian Peninsula sometime between 201-400 A. D. The Moors ruled Spain and Portugal for some 800 years starting in 711. Thus before 1492, Roman and Arab cuisine had the greatest influence on Iberian kitchens and thereafter on colonial Colombia.
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.
Speaking of South American foodways in early 1700s, Captain Jorge Juan Antonio De Ulloaof the Spanish Navy writes, The coasts and neighboring ports abound in very delicious fish, [which] . . . constitute a considerable part of the food of the inhabitants of Guayaquil.”
