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chorizo

Mexico then made its own version, fresh and crumbled, which is not a copy of the Spanish one but a return trip.

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Cultural layer

Origin

The Iberian peninsula; pork sausage coloured and preserved with pimentón, the smoked paprika that only exists because chilies came from the Americas

Routes

Carried across the Spanish and Portuguese empires and rebuilt everywhere it landed, as Mexican fresh chorizo, Filipino longganisa and Goan chouriço

Context

Spanish chorizo is red because of a Mesoamerican plant. Before the Columbian Exchange there was no paprika in Spain, so the sausage that now reads as definitively Iberian is post-1492 and depends on a chili from the Americas. Mexico then made its own version, fresh and crumbled, which is not a copy of the Spanish one but a return trip.

Behind this layer

The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Alfred W. Crosby, 1972)

Route

Pending

The routes are written. They are not yet mapped.

This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.

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