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The Origins of Chile Peppers

Christopher Columbus didn't just sail the Arawak Indians.Columbus might not have
ocean blue and discover the New World in been right about the origins, but he did
1492 while trying to find a short cut to help popularize chile peppers. (A chile
the East Indies. He sampled a plant, by any other name will be just as hot,
thought it was a relative of the black right?) He brought back samples to the
pepper, and dubbed it a "pepper."So began Iberian Peninsula and they quickly spread
several hundred years of misinformation about the world. And if you think that
about chile peppers. Unlike what today's hot sauce explosion is amazing,
Christopher Columbus thought, they aren't check this out. According to the Foodies
related to black pepper and they didn't Corner of MSN.com, roughly 50 years after
originate in India.Hot peppers actually Columbus brought home peppers, they were
came from somewhere in South America. being cultivated on all coasts of Africa,
There they were known as Aji [technically India, Asia, China, the Middle East, the
there should an accent over the "I" Balkans, Central Europe and Italy.
leaning towards the right]. Chile Peppers spread faster than kudzu.And
peppers, which hail from the genus although Columbus brought peppers to
Capsicum are not related to black pepper. Spain, it was the Portugese traders who
Instead they are members of the actually spread their use and cultivate,
nightshade (Solanaceae) family and are according to the Foodies Corner.
related to tomatoes, cherries and Portuguese trading partners in turn
eggplant."Well into the 19th century, spread peppers to Asia and the Arab world
most Europeans continued to believe that by the early 1500s. The Turks reportedly
peppers were native to India and the brought the chile pepper to Hungary in
Orient, until Alphonse de Candolle, a the mid-15th century.Today, no matter
botanist, produced convincing linguistic what language you speak, peppers are
evidence for the South America origin of popular, especially with the Thais, who
the genus Capsicum," states MSN.com's reportedly consume more chiles on a daily
Foodies Corner.Whether you call them aji basis than any other people.This article
or chile peppers, these plants were was written by Eric Vinje of Cosmic
likely first cultivated as early as 5000 Chile.
BC. By 1492, Native Americans had
domesticated at least four species. In Shop online for hot sauces, salsas,
the West Indies, Columbus found several spicy BBQ sauces and more. If it's fiery
different capsicums cultivated by the foods you're after...we've got it!




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