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SUMMARY:Cacao: An example for the movement of plants and food cultures acr
 oss the early modern Pacific - Professor Angela Schottenhammer (KU Leuven)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:In the mid-sixteenth-century drinks containing cacao were stil
 l described as “better fit for pigs than for men”. But already in the 
 later sixteenth century cacao and chocolate evolved as a popular ‘food d
 rug’\, soon conquering all echelons of society in and far beyond the Ame
 rican continent. Cacao trees (Theobroma cacao) were\, for example\, eventu
 ally transplanted in the Philippines. The cacao was supposed to serve as n
 utritious food and drink and as cash crop\, to pay for all the imports fro
 m China\, limiting\, thus\, the drain of silver from the Spanish world to 
 China and making the Philippines economically more independent. My present
 ation will especially focus on uses of this originally American plant in t
 he Philippines and China\, but also seek to provide insights into specific
  features of the transpacific transhipment and related trans-Pacific knowl
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LOCATION:Wolfson College Zoom webinar
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