CHILE PEPPERS
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| Grow Your Own - If you're an aficionado of hot sauce and salsa, chances are you've thought of growing your own chile peppers. |
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Chiles: Good for What Ails You - Forget apples. The old folk saying should probably read, "Eat a chile a day and keep the doctor away." |
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| Bring on the Fire: Spicy Inroads into the USA - During the past 25 years there has been an unprecedented change in American eating habits. |
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Some Like It Hot - All chile peppers get their fire from a compound called capsaicin, the greatest deposits of which lie in the veins of the pepper. |
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The Chile Encyclopedia - Here's a quick rundown on a variety of increasingly common chiles. |
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| Chile Pepper Facts - The burning sensation that makes chile peppers so appealing to culinary thrill-seekers comes from capsaicin or more accurately... |
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The Origins of Chile Peppers - Christopher Columbus didn't just sail the ocean blue and discover the New World in 1492 while trying to find a short cut to the East Indies. |
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| Chile Peppers: Legend and Lore - The ritual uses of the genus Capsicum range from the innocuous to the murderous, but the fiery pods are always powerful. |
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Sex and Chiles - Chiles have nothing whatsoever to do with sex. A chile is just a chile–or is it? Within the human psyche, everything has something to do with sex. |
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| Take Two Anchos and Call Me in the Morning - You've always known that peppers were good for your soul, but... |
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The Hottest Chile of Them All - According to "The Guinness World Book of Records" the Red Savina Habanero, a strain of... |
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| How Hot is Hot? - We've put together a table containing a plethora of peppers and their Scoville Heat Unit Rating. |
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Pepper Mythology: Flavorsome Folklore - Peppers, hot sauces and salsa have all played a part in folklore and mythology. |
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| Hot Terms: Pepperology 101 - A glossary of terms relating to chile peppers and all things hot & spicy. Enjoy! |
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Hot Stuff - Try to imagine even one of these: Hungarian food without paprika, Szechwan food without fiery red peppers, or Thai food... |
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| Growing Hydroponic Chiles - Hot chile peppers have become a popular hydroponic crop grown by both hobbyist and... |
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Cooking With Chiles - Anyone who has bitten into a chile and felt the heat billowing through their mouths knows how powerful this fruit can be. |
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| Dried Chiles - Ounce for ounce, a dried chile packs a more potent punch than just about anything else in the kitchen larder. |
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Fresh Chiles - Most chiles are green in color while they are growing and still in their unripened state. When they ripen and reach... |
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