Author

Publication

2018 - , New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

74,000 words, Guess

Page Count

296 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10125016320X
  • ISBN-139781250163202
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018022094
  • OCLC Control Number1016935482
  • Better World Books9781250163202
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Classifications

  • DDC633.8/4
  • LCCSB307.P4 W35 2018
  • LCCSB307.P4W35 2018

Description

The Devil's Dinner is the first authoritative history of chili peppers. There are countless books on cooking with chilies, but no book goes into depth about the biological, gastronomical, and cultural impact this forbidden fruit has had upon people all over the world. The story has been too hot to handle. A billion dollar industry, hot peppers are especially popular in the United States, where a superhot movement is on the rise. Hot peppers started out in Mexico and South America, came to Europe with returning Spanish travelers, lit up Iberian cuisine with piri-piri and pimientos, continued along eastern trade routes, boosted mustard and pepper in cuisines of the Indian subcontinent, then took overland routes to central Europe in the paprika of Hungarian and Austrian dumplings, devilled this and devilled that--they've been everywhere! The Devil's Dinner tells the history of hot peppers and captures the rise of the superhot movement.

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