Afro-Andalusi culinary legacy in Mexico  Ep. 77

Presented by: Rocio Carvajal Food anthropologist, culture & gastronomy educator.  

Episode 77

This episode explores the influence of the Andalusi culture that echoed deeply in every aspect of Spain’s society in the 16th century and the impact of the African slave trade in colonial Mexico.

But to fully understand these stories from the beginning, I will go back to the complex medieval period of the Iberian peninsula from where the seeds of empire, colonisation and slave trade originated.

References 

Books

• Bryant, Sherwin K.; O’Toole, Rachel Sarah and Vinson III, Ben. (Eds). (2012). Africans to Spanish America. Expanding the Diaspora. University of Illinois Press. https://amzn.to/3I2MqFk 

• Campoalegre Septien, Rosa. (Ed). (2018). Afrodescendencias: voces en resistencia. CLACSO. [FREE] https://tinyurl.com/yxthr34m 

• Catlos, Brian A. (2018) Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain. Basic Books. https://amzn.to/3GroJGG 

   Eltis, David and Engerman, Stanley L. (eds). (2011). The Cambridge world history of slavery. Vol. III ad 1420–ad 1804. Cambridge University Press. https://amzn.to/3nloOUS 

• Fernández-Morera. Darío (2016) The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise. Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain. ISI Books. https://amzn.to/33pItvA 

• Kennedy, Hugh. (2014). Muslim Spain and Portugal. A Political History of al-Andalus. Routledge. https://amzn.to/3zSkfpP 

• Mintz , Sidney Wilfred and Price, Richard. (1992). The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective. Beacon Press. https://amzn.to/3K5vqAa

  Phillips, William D. Jr. (2014). Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Penn. https://amzn.to/3HQGW0y 

• Proctor III, Frank. (2010) “Rebelión esclava y libertad en el México colonial.” En: de la Serna, J. M. (Ed.), De la libertad y la abolición: Africanos y afrodescendientes en Iberoamérica. Centro de estudios mexicanos y centroamericanos. [FREE] http://books.openedition.org/cemca/1626 

• Rinaudo, Christian. (2012). Afromestizaje y fronteras étnicas: una mirada desde el puerto de Veracruz. Universidad Veracruzana, Institut de recherche pour le développement. [FREE] https://tinyurl.com/y3lk5n8m 

• UNESCO. (2018) Legacies of slavery: a resource book for managers of sites and itineraries of memory. [FREE] https://tinyurl.com/yhyhdrwh. 

Academic papers

• Ranero Castro, Mayabel. (2015) “Sabores compartidos del Caribe afroandaluz: Veracruz y La Habana.” En: Ávila, Ricardo; Álvarez, Marcelo y  Medina, F. Xavier (coords) Alimentos, cocinas eintercambios culinarios. Confrontaciones culturales, identidades, resignificaciones. UDG. pp.67-89. [FREE] https://tinyurl.com/yde8r6bn  

• Spedding, Alison P. (2010). “Somos lo que comemos? Crítica de la “descolonización” en la alimentación.” En: Temas Sociales, (30), pp.156-175. https://tinyurl.com/yf53obzg

Websites

• Afroculinaria. https://afroculinaria.com/2016/10/05/crops-of-african-origin-or-african-diffusion-in-the-americas/   

• The Filāḥa Texts Project. (2022). http://www.filaha.org/author_ibn_al_awwam.html 

• Spanish Words of Arabic Origin. https://www.spanishdict.com/guide/spanish-words-of-arabic-origin 

• Arabismos and linguistic similarities between Arab and spanish. https://youtu.be/AOe4mkzBdCs 

• Slave voyages. https://www.slavevoyages.org/ 

Youtube

• Canal 11: Afroméxico –Representaciones de la cultura afromexicana. Tv docuseries. (In Spanish) https://youtu.be/SiUPVwi2BOM 

Podcasts 

• Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: conversations on the history of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898. Presented by Dr. Edward Collins. University College Dublin. https://tinyurl.com/y3qnggg2 

• Not Just the Tudors. How Catherine of Aragon Learnt to be Queen. https://tinyurl.com/y5t2gkyt 

• Dan Snow’s History Hit. The Conquistadores. https://tinyurl.com/yxero78m 

• In our time. The Almoravid Empire. https://tinyurl.com/y553k2el 

• In our time. The Valladolid Debate.  https://tinyurl.com/y52q45bh