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Hans Staden, landsknecht in Portuguese service and prisoner of the Tupinamba in the 1550s, made some interesting observations about the foodways of his captors. We saw a reference to fire-dried, ground fish in the last post on cassava. Here, he … Continue reading

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Hans Staden on Cassava

Another piece from my ongoing research into buccaneer cuisine. This is from the account of the German landsknecht Hans Staden who served the Portuguese crown in Brazil in the 1550s. He spent a considerable time as a captive of the … Continue reading

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