[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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