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Today Oct 9th is National Observance of Columbus Day. Many government facilities, post offices and banks are closed. When I was young we got this day off from school.
If you want to observe this day, try to have foods that were eaten by Columbus's crew. When Columbus first sailed, he stopped in the Canary Islands and got chesses for the trip. Typical meals for the crew would have included salted fish, beef and pork in olive oil, garlic, salt, olives, vinegar and molasses for flavor.
They also had sea biscuits which are like hardtack. They were made of wheat flour and water.
Once they arrived in the New World, they would experience many foods which were taken back with them to Spain.
From: https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat-sailor-celebrate-columbus-day
If you want to observe this day, try to have foods that were eaten by Columbus's crew. When Columbus first sailed, he stopped in the Canary Islands and got chesses for the trip. Typical meals for the crew would have included salted fish, beef and pork in olive oil, garlic, salt, olives, vinegar and molasses for flavor.
They also had sea biscuits which are like hardtack. They were made of wheat flour and water.
Once they arrived in the New World, they would experience many foods which were taken back with them to Spain.
From: https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat-sailor-celebrate-columbus-day