[Sca-cooks] Hot Peppers

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>Irmele asked:
>>Question: If capsicum peppers are New World, what were people in
>>southern Asia using to make their food hot?

>Ginger, garlic, a wide variety of peppers (not capsicums)...

>Try eating a raw garlic clove if you don't think garlic can be pedas
>(spicy hot).
>Try using too much ginger and see if that isn't also pedas. Of
>course, the dried stuff from the supermarket is often rather stale,
>so it often doesn't add much bite, but the powdered stuff i buy at
>Whole Foods and Lhasak Karnak is pretty powerful.

Yeah, I made a ginger/pepper/garlic sauce for the feast I did yesterday
(full report to come as soon as I get the pictures webbed)... anyway, due to
something of a heavy hand when I was making it, it turned out basically like
ginger wasabi - thick, good, but HOT... :-)

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