Marinated Salad of Venison

After the Spanish expelled the Jesuits from Guam in 1769, the island economy and agriculture fell into disarray until a wise and humane gentleman, Don Mariano Tobias, was appointed as governor in 1771. He set the economy on an upswing, reestablished the balance of domestic animals, stocked the island with imported flora and fauna, planted gardens and avenues of coconut palms and breadfruit trees.

During Tobias’s administration, a Lieutenant Crozet,