[Sca-cooks] chili pepper in 1620 spanish painting?

[Daniel Myers]

Came across this while looking for something else.

	http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/v/velazque/1620/05christ.jpg

Does the thing in front of the bowl of fish look like a dried chili 
pepper to anyone else?

Of course capsicums had a full 100 years to make their way to Spain by 
then ...


- Doc


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  Edouard Halidai  (Daniel Myers)
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