All tagged Seafood
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.
How fish became a principal food eaten during the Lenten season is unclear. The season does coincide with the thawing of waterways and the maturity of a variety of seafood.
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.”
