[Sca-cooks] chile, chili, chilli

[Terry Decker]

In contemporary sources, Columbus comments on the number of caravelles full 
he can send to Spain.  Oviedo places them in Italy around 1535.  They appear 
in Fuchs Herbal of 1545.  Turner places them in England by 1538.  I don't 
know if these authors merely referenced the plant or mentioned their 
culinary properties.

Bernardino de Sahagun describes how chilies were used in cooking in Mexico 
in the late 1570s.  But the earliest European reference I've encountered to 
eating peppers is a recipe for tomato sauce from the late 17th Century.

Bear

> Does anyone know of references to Europeans eating capsicums in food in 
> Europe and what they thought of them?
> -- 
> Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)