[Sca-cooks] Redaction exercise
TerryDecker
t.d.decker at att.net
Mon Mar 10 06:46:28 PDT 2014
You're making a false equivalency. Neither cacao or vanilla was grown in
the Canaries, while sweet potatoes and (probably) white potatoes were.
Until 1841, vanilla could not be propagated outside of Mexico. IIRC, the
first recorded shipment of cacao was from Veracruz in 1585.
Bear
-----Original Message-----
Writing of possibilities:
The current earliest iron-clad reference to potatoes in Europe is 1567, the
potatoes being shipped from the Canaries to Antwerp. The Netherlands were
then under Spanish/Habsburg control, with a number of the governors being
Austrian. This gives an example of a *possible* quick route, via the
Netherlands, from Spanish territory to Austria.
This is not direct evidence. It does demonstrate that the effective
'distance' for chocolate or vanilla could be much faster than would appear
simply by looking at a map.
Thorvald
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