[Sca-cooks] peppers vs. chilies

[Volker Bach]

> -----Original Message-----

> Besides "pepper" and "pepper", there's also "hot" and "hot"...
>
> In Indonesia there are two different words to distinguish between
> temperature hot (panas) and spicy hot (pedas). "Pedas" is not the
> same as "piquant" or "pungent", words which to me do not carry the
> same sense of XXXtreme...
>
> Do other languages have words that clearly distinguish "spicy hot"
> from other sensations?

German has 'heiss' (temperature hot) and 'scharf' (flavour hot - the same word 
used for describing blade sharpness). There are also 'würzig' (spicy in 
general) and 'pikant' (a French loan word describing spicy/savory as opposed 
to sweet). But all of this is more art than science.

Giano


	

	
		
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