[Sca-cooks] Fw: [Trimariscookslist] Asking a favor of Phlip

[Terry Decker]

What you want for a reference is Richard Hakluyt's Principle Navigations,
Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589).  Pay particular
attention to the writings of Drake and Hawkins, where sweet potatoes and
maize appear.  There is a paperback abridgement under a different name from
Penguin and Volume 10 of the Harvard Classics also reprints some of the more
useful writings.

I'm curious about the documentation for rice in the Caribbean.  It was
definitely being grown for export in the Carolinas in the 17th and 18th
Centuries and I was thinking the original introduction of rice to the
Caribbean was on Columbus's second voyage, which should be covered by Peter
Martyr.

Bear


>Request from an occasional List member...
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stephanie M. Ross" <>
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>> Greetings Phlip!!
>>
>> Would you be so kind as to post this request for any info on medieval
>> caribbean food recipes/sources to the SCA cooks list? It is so
>> voluminous that I don't subscribe anymore, but I sure could use their
>> expertise on this one. I HAVE discovered that rice came late to the
>> Caribbean, in the 1800's with the East Indians and Orientals, as did
>> curry. Jerk seasoning seems to be period though, and I'm betting
>> Jamaican pasties or meat pies are too. I'm not planning this feast to
>> be completely period because I think finding sources will be very
>> difficult (the event is late period/Cavalier pirate themed), but I'd
>> like to know what they ate in the Caribbean in period just for
>> elucidation's sake. Thanks in advance!
>>
>> YIS,
>> HL Aislinn Columba of Carlisle
>> Trimaris
>>
>>
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