SC - Columbus' chilies

[david friedman]

  "Decker, Terry D."<TerryD at Health.State.OK.US> writes:

>  The Portuguese had introduced
>  > grains of
>  > paradise no more than 70 years prior to Columbus' voyage and they
>  > were
>  > accepted and widely used.  Why not chilies?

What is your source for that? Grains appear in  Le Menagier and 
Taillevent, both of which are more than 70 years before Columbus' 
voyage.

David/Cariadoc
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