El sol andaluz #6: Favourite meat
Jamón serrano (dried ham) is definitely one of my favourite food in Spain. Of course it is also very popular among the Spaniards.
Pock is the most popular meat in Southern Spain, while lamb and beef are more popular in the central and northern part of Spain.
So you think that the last five hundred years of catholic rule has managed to change the eating habit inculcated during eight hundred years of Muslim rule? Not exactly, it was even more "efficient" - it was probably changed completely within fifty years after the catholic kings took control of the peninsula.
Firstly, there was the expulsion of Muslims (Jews too) to northern Africa once the peninsula turned catholic.
Then those who stayed must convert to be catholic, who became what they called "Morisco". And in order to show that they have really renounced Islam and not practicing it secretly, they must eat pork.
Categories: Culture, Europe, History, Islam, Travel
Pock is the most popular meat in Southern Spain, while lamb and beef are more popular in the central and northern part of Spain.
So you think that the last five hundred years of catholic rule has managed to change the eating habit inculcated during eight hundred years of Muslim rule? Not exactly, it was even more "efficient" - it was probably changed completely within fifty years after the catholic kings took control of the peninsula.
Firstly, there was the expulsion of Muslims (Jews too) to northern Africa once the peninsula turned catholic.
Then those who stayed must convert to be catholic, who became what they called "Morisco". And in order to show that they have really renounced Islam and not practicing it secretly, they must eat pork.
Categories: Culture, Europe, History, Islam, Travel
posted by Man Yee at 4:33 pm
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