SC - pepper history

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/16/99 12:55:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
stefan at texas.net writes:

<< I would be interested in seeing more about this growing of chilies in
 Europe in 1493.  >>


This info would interest me also since  the Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook 
where I originally started reading about capsicums states that they were a 
'major' agricultural crop in the Meditteranean BASIN by 1523 from which i 
assumed they meant the sea side areas of the Ottoman Empire and possibly 
southern Italy and southern Spain, Egypt, Libya, etc. The use of hot peppers 
in those cuisines in modern times lends some creedence to the theory. I had 
also read that through Spanish/Islamic trade, it was introduced not only into 
the parts of Europe settled by Islamic people (Hungary, Yugoslvia, etc) but 
also on into India and farther East. From there it was reintroduced  back 
into Europe into France , Germany and England. I may be wrong but this is the 
basic timeline I see regarding the movement of capsicums from the New World 
to Northern European countries.

Ras
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