Chilies (was Re: Tobacco)

[Dominik Wujastyk]

On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 Hrid at aol.com wrote:

> If chillies come from elsewhere, does that mean that all that hot hot Indian
> food is not "original"?  

That's exactly right.  Pepper, black pepper, and long pepper, have a long
history in India.  But chilli, and all the Capsicum family, are South
American in origin, and are not known in Indian before the sixteenth
century.

All the best,
Dominik

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