[Sca-cooks] OT: With all due respect

[Suey]

Stephanie wrote:

Shouldn't the bigger question here be-  is this really relevant to the SCA
cooks list?

I am rather confused why it was posted


Stephanie

Actually it is quite relevant on the two sides of the world. The 
Spaniards took their concubines to the new world who were Spanish-Islams 
fleeing from the Inquisition and they took their recipes which today are 
common fare in South America but forgotten in Spain.
Not much is written about American female slaves being taken to Europe 
but perhaps we have something there. Hernando Pizarro married his niece, 
a half Incan princess.
Yes, Europeans killed Americans with their diseases which I do not 
consider an issue as far as medieval recipes are concerned.
That is not my point.
Slaves from Roman times through the American Civil War contributed to 
gastronomy. Columbus was not the founder of slavery! He was simply a man 
of his times serving the crown of Castile.
Suey