[Sca-cooks] Food in 1632? sorta OP/OT

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
> 
> Remember that little cookbook by Sabina
> Welserin?  The Welsers were financed
> a private expedition into South America in the
> late 1530s.  The Fuggers,
> Welsers and Hochstetters were funding Spanish
> and Portuguese exploration and
> had agents in most of the Mediterranean ports. 
> They had their fingers in
> most of the trade pies in Europe.  If something
> was in Europe, it could get
> to Germany, or at least Augsburg, quickly.

In 1529, Bartholomew Welser received a huge grant
of land in what is now Venezuela from Charles V
(King Charles I of Spain), who gave it to
Bartholomew in exchange for large sums of money
owed to the Welser Family on behalf of the crown.
The Family sponsored an expedition to inspect and
explore their new lands in 1535 under the command
of Phillip von Hutton, hoping to find precious
metals and colonize the area. Von Hutton spent
several years exploring the continent’s interior
and eventually became Captain-General of the
province. In 1546, however, the Spanish crown
revoked the Welser’s land grant. The new Spanish
Governor had the entire expedition executed.

Huette

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