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

[Terry Decker]

Right shape, right color, but not a good reproduction.  It would be nice if
we could see the original or a Tauschen reproduction.

Chili peppers appear in Leonard Fuchs herbal of 1543, so it is very likely
they were being used in cooking before 1600.

Bear

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