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- Title:
- The Pirate Food Writer
- Date Created:
- 2021-05-05
- Description:
- From the journey of Captain Read and Captain Swan we also learn that people of Maguindanao bred ducks and hens in corrals built around house posts. Dishes were washed indoors and the used water poured through slatted floors. Dutch in sloops from Ternate and Tidore of the Spiceries bought rice, beeswax and tobacco from Maguindanao. Malay was the trade language that supplemented local island languages. All vignettes of this set of 17 episodes are from “New Voyage Round the World” authored by the English freebooter William Dampier and published in 1697. It tells of his journey from 1679-1691. One wonders how a pirate could “go straight.” But in 1699 the British government made him head of a voyage of discovery to the South Seas that included Australia and New Guinea. He is commended as one of the most important British explorers and navigators of his era. He cited many foods and food plants in his book and is the first European to describe the making of guacamole. He possibly gave breadfruit its English name. From 1703-1707 he completed a second circumnavigation. The pirate in him never went away. From 1708 to 1722 he was the pilot of a privateer called Duke and with him sailed around the world for the last time.
- Subjects:
- Charles Swan John Read William Dampier Commerce Voyages and travels
- Exhibition:
- Dampier 1686
- Source:
- Dampier holding his book. Thomas Murray. National Portrait Gallery, London. Public domain. (A new set of stories from Philippine food history of the late 1600s will be starting soon.)
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "The Pirate Food Writer", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll209.html