Chilies and China: Brian Dott on how a New World import defined regional cuisines in China
Sinica Podcast
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The Origins of Chilli Peppers
The name of a pepper from chin is actually the sucan pepper, ha jow pepper. It's interesting that even to day, there are names for chilly products. For example, hydomian, whichit means sea pepper,. A mian sea pepper, you know, a flower or whatever youwant to call in ground, its ground. And then also fon the foreign pepper, in that case, the pepper term is a reference to the flower pepper, sutuan pepper as well.
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