Fw: Fw: [Sca-cooks] Discussion of usage of capsicum peppers inAsiainourperiod.

[Phlip]

More comments fron Gene Anderson on the pepper question...

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Chiles were instantly popular--Columbus thought he'd found 
> the Indies and that the capsicums were a new kind of pepper--
> hence the confusion still with us.  He brought some back to 
> Europe, I believe.  Certainly by the 1540s they were indeed 
> pretty well known.  The Portuguese had a rep for taking every 
> new useful crop with them on voyages--they had maize in West 
> Africa before 1500.

> There are several species of Zanthoxylum used.  They are 
> the "brown pepper," "flower pepper," etc., of the books.  
> Water pepper is usually something else:  Polygonum spp., the 
> rau ram of Vietnamese cooking.

> There is also a plant called Hydropiper, which literally 
> means "water pepper," that is called "water pepper" in the 
> lit.  It's a spicy leaf like rau ram.
> Gene

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