Minggu, 21 Maret 2010

A Culinary Look at Women in History: Afro Colombian Women


Chocolate cassava cake, recipe below

People of all sectors (Iberians, Indians, Africans, and castas (mixed folk) ) of colonial Colombia, South America delighted in chocolate. In the early eighteenth century one traveler wrote that chocolate was “so common” and affordable that enslaved Africans regular ate it and the wealthier sort acquired the habit of eating it before a large breakfast. As a result Afro Colombian women venders in Cartagena did a brisk business selling ready to drink chocolate beverages and a popular corn, chocolate and cassava cake. These fashionable curbside beverages and fast food illustrate the culinary syncretism that emerged at the intersection of African, Indian, and Iberian influences. Here is a recipe for a great chocolate cassava cake:

Chocolate cassava cake recipe: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/17/chocolate-cassava-cake

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