The Bacon Book: Irresistible, mouthwatering recipes!. Christopher Sjuve

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СКАЧАТЬ out the striking coincidence that Cortés, de León and de Soto all hailed from the Extremadura region of western Spain and all three had grown up around pigs.»

      The imported pigs eventually established a wild population in the West Indies, roaming through the jungles eating everything they came across. They turned out to be well suited to the new environment and thrived on this new, strange fauna. Columbus’s pigs would leave their mark on the history of pigs in America. They proved highly adaptable and soon enough there were so many that it started to become a problem. In the years to come the Spanish conquistadors would have their hands full keeping the porcine population in check. It was bad enough that they grazed on the colonists’ corn and sugarcane crops, but from time to time they would attack cows and even people when they felt threatened.

      More than 40 years later, in 1539, Hernando de Soto launched the first European expedition into the American mainland. His cargo included 2,500 ‘shoulders of bacon’, as well as an unspecified number of live pigs. Some sources mention as many as 200 pigs, while others claim there were as few as 13 sows and two boars. It’s similarly uncertain where he obtained the pigs, but some sources maintain that he bought them in Cuba from another conquistador, Ponce de León.

      Where had de León got them from, then? It seems likely that they were descendants of the small herd Columbus had brought with him, which may have bred with other pigs that undertook the same voyage later on, but historians aren’t certain. Another hypothesis is that de León had brought his own pigs on an expedition to Florida 18 years earlier, but there’s no concrete evidence to support this.

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