Pepper Trail is a fun book about the world-wide history of peppers Some like it hot; I prefer sweet peppers.
"Until
quite recently, only very pungent chillies, like those cultivated in India,
were grown and used in Thailand. In fact, there is no Thai word for sweet
pepper.…Paprika
is also the name by which all peppers are known in the Balkans. Pungent
Hungarian paprika is prepared from a long cayenne type pepper they call ‘spice
paprika’ … while Spanish and Moroccan paprikas are prepared from a milder, tomato-shaped
pepper."
Andrews,
Jean. Pepper Trail : History & Recipes from Around the World.
College
Station, TX, USA: University of North Texas Press, 1999. p 93.
Copyright © 1999.
University of North Texas Press
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