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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach 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?

Uh, yeah, it does...

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

It's tempting to consider the possibility that some variation of 
piri-piri sauce is being made for the fish.

Adamantius