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sofrito

It is a structural principle that was adapted wherever the Spanish colonial kitchen landed, and the adaptations are the history.

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Cultural layer

Origin

Iberian Peninsula (Spanish/Portuguese base); adapted distinctly in every Caribbean and Latin American cuisine

Routes

Spain/Portugal, Caribbean and Latin America via colonization, each region developed unique versions (Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban)

Context

Sofrito is the aromatic base that connects Spanish colonial cuisines across the Americas: from Puerto Rican recaito to Dominican sofrito to Cuban sofrito, the principle is the same even when the ingredients diverge. Each regional version encodes local ingredient access and the specific Indigenous and African influences that reshaped colonial cooking in each place. Sofrito is not a single recipe. It is a structural principle that was adapted wherever the Spanish colonial kitchen landed, and the adaptations are the history.

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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