All in African Slave Trade
This week I'm teaming up with Chef Rey Guerrero a native of the Pacific coast of Colombia a region historically inhabited by Afro Colombians. We are both traveling to Northwestern University to discuss Afro Pacific foodways using our respective expertise.
Food preferences in colonial Colombia cannot be explained without a discussion of the transformation in Old World foodways during the Colombian exchange and in the Americas where creole culture emerged from below not from above. Spanish Colonial elites influenced but did control the development of Columbia's foodways.
