[Sca-cooks] Food assumptions..

[Daniel Myers]

One of my Indian cow-orkers also insists that chili peppers are native
to India - even after I showed him numerous sources that stated
otherwise.


On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 06:47 PM, johnna holloway wrote:

> One of the books that I have on hot peppers recounts that they
> interviewed various people in India regarding red chile peppers and all
> were positive that they were native to India. I would guess that it's
> quite common for people all over the world to believe that a common
> traditional  dish has always been eaten when in fact it can be traced
> to
> an event or the introduction of a specific ingredient.
>
> Johnna Holloway
>
> Erika Thomenius wrote:>
>> I ran across a pretty funny story.  One of my mother's friends is an
>> anthropologist/poli-scientist who did a lot of ethnographic work in
>> remote
>> areas of Malaysia in the late 70s/early 80s.  Apparently, when he was
>> there,
>> he could NOT convince the people he was studying that potatoes weren't
>> indigenous.  After all, they'd always eaten them, their parents' had
>> always
>> eaten them, their grandparents had always eaten them...
>>
>> -Gytha "This spud's for you" Karlsdotter
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