Roasted Corn Vender, Historic District Mexico City, July 2009. In addition to the sale of corn, one can find all kinds of roasted insects for sale too. This vender sold roasted crickets.
In the port of Havana, Cuba, large-scale sugar planters purchased the lion share of most lots of slaves. Planters in Cuba typically distributed niggardly allotments of yucca, yams, and plantains on a weekly or monthly basis. “When plantains are scarce” writes traveler Mary Gardner Lowell “corn is substituted & so the reverse.” In addition to their fieldwork, slaves in Cuba received time and space to work their subsistence gardens. Former slave Esteban Montejo recalled his days in captivity in Cuba, “it was the small gardens that saved many slaves. They provided them real nourishment. Almost all slaves had their conucos [gardens].” He writes: “They were little strips of dirt for gardening. They were real close to the barracoons, almost right in back. They grew everything there: sweet potato, squash, okra, corn, peas, horse beans, beans, like limas, limes, yucca, and peanuts.”
Related links: http://www.tasteofcuba.com/
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