By Hector Rodriguez, About.com
Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean around 1492 and introduced Spanish influences on Latin Caribbean cooking. Other Europeans followed the Spanish in colonizing the islands and brought their culinary trademarks. Some of the ingredients the Spanish and Europeans introduced include:
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