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mojo

A sauce that follows displacement tends to keep changing, because each arrival has to work with what the new place actually grows.

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Cultural layer

Origin

The Canary Islands, then Cuba and the wider Spanish Caribbean; garlic and citrus in oil, built on sour orange in the Cuban version

Routes

Carried from the Canaries by settlers to the Caribbean, where sour orange replaced the original vinegar; carried again to Miami by the Cuban exile community after 1959

Context

Mojo moved twice, each time with people who had left somewhere. Canarian migrants brought it to Cuba where it met sour orange, and Cuban exiles brought that version to Florida after 1959, where it now marinates most of the pork in Miami. A sauce that follows displacement tends to keep changing, because each arrival has to work with what the new place actually grows.

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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