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Chile Peppers: A Global History

By Dave DeWitt

Book information

Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Year
2020
ISBN
0826361803, 9780826361806
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (14199105 bytes)
Pages
368\0
Topic
History
Time added
2020-10-25 06:17:42

Description

For more than ten thousand years, humans have been fascinated by a seemingly innocuous plant with bright-colored fruits that bite back when bitten. Ancient New World cultures from Mexico to South America combined these pungent pods with every conceivable meat and vegetable, as evident from archaeological finds, Indian artifacts, botanical observations, and studies of the cooking methods of the modern descendants of the Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs. In Chile Peppers: A Global History, Dave DeWitt, a world expert on chiles, travels from New Mexico across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia chronicling the history, mystery, and mythology of chiles around the world and their abundant uses in seventy mouth-tingling recipes.

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