[Sca-cooks] red tower feast? - aji

[Jennifer Whitbeck]

FWIW, I have modern Columbian friends who call
jalapeno peppers "aji".

--- johnna holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
wrote:
> Robert Fuson's translation entitled The Log of
> Christopher Columbus in the entry for 15 January
> 1493 concludes with:
.....
> There is
> also much aji, which is their pepper and is worth
> more
> than our pepper; no one eats without it because it
> is very healthy.
> Fifty caravels can be loaded each year with it on
> this Isla
> Espanola. (p.175)
>
> Fuson gives Aji as meaning chili pepper, not be
> confused
> with aje (yuca or sweet potatoes) and ajo (garlic).
>

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