The Portuguese Colonial Culinary Routes

The Portuguese were the first European slave traders — beginning operations on the West African coast in the 1440s, a full century before the English, Dutch, and French. The Portuguese colonial network (stretching from West Africa to Brazil, to India's Goa coast, to Japan, to Southeast Asia) produced the most far-reaching culinary transmission routes of any colonial power. The specific Portuguese culinary contributions to each colonial territory — tempura in Japan, vindaloo in Goa, piri-piri chilli in Mozambique and Angola, caldo verde in Brazil, bacalhau across the Portuguese diaspora — represent the longest-range culinary transmissions in history.

The Portuguese as culinary transmitters — their specific colonial food routes.

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