[Sca-cooks] Discussion of usage of capsicum peppers in Asiain ourperiod.

[Elaine Koogler]

Craig Jones wrote:

>>The fact that chiles were eaten in Asia before the end of period
>>makes them, in some people's minds, perfectly fine as representative
>>of Asian food in period.
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>There is a just post period description of a Thai curry which contained
>white pepper as the heat source.
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>The civilization was a keen up taker of chilies and had early contact
>with the Portuguese.
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>I don't aspire to the claim that chilies were used in Eastern cookery
>pre-1600.
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>>You can point out to her that there are dialect differences, that
>>spelling anything in modern pinyin is subject to those
>>regional/dialectical pronunciations, that there is no such thing as a
>>"Chinese word" (since there really is no language called "Chinese")
>>except in written form, which in this case is pinyin, and that the la
>>jiu versus la jiao distinction appears to be simply an attempt to
>>discredit the source's qualifications, which are in fact  impeccable,
>>even among the authorities who don't care for his pronunciation
>>and/or written renderings of same.
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>Do we have a context within Brown Pepper is mentioned?  Could it be one
>of the water peppers perhaps?
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>Drake - the proud father of dozens of newly hatched Siamese Fighting
>Fish.
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Or could it be Szechuan pepper...

Kiri