The Spanish do not use a lot of cumin to this day, but Canarios allegedly
do. Others were settled somewhat later in Louisiana by the Spanish. I have
always suspected that a hand in the San Antonio chile pot was German, since
the Germans had a similar stew called goulash, which used caraway seeds.
Caraway and cumin are both kummel in German, so I wonder if the cumin didn't
get into the chili when someone was thinking about goulash?

Another vector is the Minorcan settlement in Florida in the late 18th
Century.


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"Gunner" > wrote in message
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> Does anyone have info or thoughts, preferably able to be verified or
> referenced , on when and how Cumin was introduced into the new world.
> Indentured East(Asian) Indians in the Caribbean, early 1800, the Spanish
> in Mexico, early to mid 1500s, or perhaps the Texican theory of the
> Canary Islands immigrants in San Antonio approx. 1720.
>
> Thanks in advance
>