[Sca-cooks] Redaction exercise

prescotj prescotj at telusplanet.net
Mon Mar 10 16:54:23 PDT 2014


Just indicating that the route from one Spanish possession to Austria was simpler and quicker than a simple look at the atlas might suggest.

So Mexico to (say) Seville then on to Antwerp and Austria is a possibility.  Spanish customs regulations suggest that Mexico direct to Antwerp might have been, at least technically, illegal, and so perhaps less likely.


Thorvald


----- TerryDecker <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:
> 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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