Only registered users may post messages Want to register ? Topic  The Georujo Kamitani & Queimadaware thread by HAYATO 11:47   Fri 6 Dec Forum   Your UserName: Your Password:   *required - forgot your password ? Message Title: Your message: Icon selection: posticon BakedSquid 16mac1 BoiledEgg Before CutletDinner CandyBowl Clip Clipboard DC_Vm4 DC DishSoap2 Fc01 DC_b2 Dice1 Eggplant Disk_1 Disksys DuntPan Edamame KitchenKnife Fami_2 Fan1 Fc_FBasic Fc_PG Fc_cart1 Fc_cart5 GBP_silver Gameboy Garbege Gba2 Logo_NeoCD Linux Logo_Nintendo64 Logo_NeoGeo MailBox3 Logo_PS MailBox PaperBag MisoSoup OpenBox PCE Pad_DC2 Pad_PS Pad_Pce Pad_Sfc Pad_fc1 cocktail1 PetitTomato Pin-white Pockepika Pretzel SauceLadle Scale2 SegaSat SodaBar SoftCream ShavedIce-Strawberry StrappedBox Take-out Ws_3 alert angry apple arrow art attention beer biggrin book burger candy carrot cars chart chick chick1 chick2 chick3 chicken construction cocktail2 coffee digdug cpu download dosei duck dq1 dq2 dq3 icq-offline mp3 e3 egg face ff-cursor file film floppy fries frown gesselaf goemon1 goemon2 goemon3 happa health humor icecream icq-away icq-dnd icq-free icq-invisible icq-na icq-occupied oba-q pad icq-online icq-seek idea jojo_do jojo_go keylock library mahjong mario meat melon microphone mmcafe monitor multimedia music netscape1 netscape2 netscape3 netscape4 newspaper newswire questionmark opaopa pig pointer posticon pow powerbox pudding question redface sad science search smile smile2 smile3 smile4 sports strawberry sunrise theweb thumbdown thumbup travel upa_milk upa_pig yellowpages or view all icons here. [quote] I noticed some stuff on the wiki claims that Queimada might not actually be that old... I wish my grandfather was still alive, he was from Galicia (a village called Louro) and he fled the country when the Communists lost the civil war (he fought on the communist side). I would have been curious to ask him about it. Too bad he isn't around anymore, his recollections and knowledge of the matter at hand should have been really, really useful. You are right, anyway: Queimada's ritualistic side can be traced back around half a century ago but its original recipe is about 80-100 years old, likely an invention of Galician emigrants or civil war exiles (such as your grandfather). Galicians are known in Spain for their big sense of community and their proclivity to homesickness, so they tend to gather together when residing abroad to celebrate holidays and other festivities in their own fashion, so that's a likely explanation on how and when Queimada was born. Plus, both cane sugar and the [URL=http://www.abc.es/Media/201211/05/Alquitara-orujo-Cantabria--644x362.jpg]Alquitara[/URL] (the traditional Alembic used in Northern Spain to distill Orujo) were introduce in the Iberian Peninsula by the Arabs, so this brewery couldn't be invented prior to the 12th century in any case. Only one thing is for sure: Orujo, its main ingredient has been in production in Cantabria (and later also in Galicia) since the middle ages and was used as a traditional medicine to treat [/URL][/B][/S][/I][COLOR=660000]-- Message too long, Autoquote has been Snipped --[/COLOR][/quote] Show Signature: include your profile signature. Emoticons: disable Emoicons in this post.