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When you’re at the store in search for some spice to add to your cooking, you’ll usually find sauces or raw chili peppers that come in green, red, orange or yellow. Do you pick a certain color that looks most spicy, and are you aware of the various flavors...

One is from South America, the other, from India. One is usually black, the other, red, yellow, purple, and, most commonly, green. One is the most traded spice in the world, the other, the most consumed spice in the world. Despite these differences,...

A seemingly obvious question came into my mind when I first discovered that chili peppers were from South America and not, as I always thought, native to India.
If chili peppers are from South America, then why is the spiciest chili in the world found in India?...

During my preliminary research in the weeks before launching my Kickstarter, I ran across this line.
“There are 14 ‘high pungency’ cultures in the world where the use of [chili peppers] is predominant in nearly every dish.”
14 chili pepper loving cultures, eh? I went to the article index to see, what where those those 14 countries were, and and was unable to find a list. I searched online, in academic databases, but found nothing....