[Sca-cooks] chile, chili, chilli

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> If I read Bears message correctly, Columbus' comments are about how much
he _can_ send, not
> how much he _did_ send.  Every account that I have read always talks about
how Columbus
> brought back peppers from the New World.  What they don't write about is
how he actually
> accomplished this feat, since it must have taken months to return to
Spain.  Today I could
> pick a peck of peppers and hop onto a plane and be in Spain in six or
seven hours and the
> peppers would still be edible when I arrived.  How did Columbus manage to
arrive in Spain
> with a cargo of edible peppers?  Or tomatoes for that fact?  If he brought
seeds, which
> would survive such a voyage, it would take some time for the seeds to be
planted, hopefully
> grow and thrive and hopefully bear fruit.  But I cannot buy that he sent
caravelles full of
> picked fruit that arrived in perfect condition months later.
>
> Huette

Dry them- very easily done, and it was definitely a technology they had ;-)

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

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And never a rider who cain't be throwed....