Comments on: How To Braise A Rabbit: Braised Rabbit With Marsala Wine and Wild Mushrooms

By: Stinkbug

Stinkbug — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:23:37 +0000

This recipe looks marvelous, I remember eating a great deal of rabbit as a youngster in my hometown of Whittier, CA. We used to have a truck much like the Helm’s Bakery that would come around once a week and sell rabbit meat to my mom. She fixed the most delicious rabbit I’d ever tasted. This recipe brings back a lot of memories, thank you!

By: hgc

hgc — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:39:15 +0000

I finished this recipe today, and it might just be the tastiest thing I’ve ever prepared.

I did it in stages, braising and picking the meat off the rabbits and straining the stock 2 days ago, and finishing this afternoon.

I used Madeira instead of Marsala.

By: Ardene

Ardene — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:09:00 +0000

Barbara & Roxanne, thanks for the info.

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:14:38 +0000

New world foods spread around the globe via trade. In addition to the Portuguese introducing New World foods to India, Spain became involved in the Philippines in the early 1500s (via Ferdinand Magellan), although the Portuguese and Arabs had trading posts there before Spain. Once trading posts were established in these areas, chili peppers spread rapidly–in great part because they could be dried and safely stored for very long periods. In addition to sea trading routes, chile peppers and cocoa beans also spread through the traditional land trading routes (such as the Silk Road). It was especially easy for these foods to enter North Africa through trade, as it is just across the Mediterranean. Southern Europe already had well established trade relationships with the North African countries.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:16:07 +0000

Ardene–From what I have read of the history of Indian food from the Indian scholar, K. T. Achaya in the books A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food and Indian Food: A Historical Companion, the chili pepper arrived in the Indian state of Goa in the 16th century via Portuguese traders.

It is assumed that Arab and Portuguese traders then took the chili from India into China, but the facts on that are a bit murkier. It is also possible that it was carried to the Philippines by Spanish colonists and from there, it went to China and the rest of SE Asia, though, I am of the opinion that it got to Thailand via Arab traders as that is what I have read from various Thai authors including Kasma Loha Unchit.