Chilies and China: Brian Dott on how a New World import defined regional cuisines in China
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The Chili Pepper - It's a Local Movement
There are lots of names for varieties, and those arece that's a separate list. A lot of em are really colorful sorts of things that are much more something that would occur to a farmer than a scholar in his studio. So these are sort of body parts of animals that they would be seen on a daily, or maybe in a monthly basis. That's a very strong argument in favour of the farmer. i think farmers, there's that,. The fact that we don't have records of them being in the market and being moved by merchants persuades me that it makes a lot of sense that it's that local movement a so a good example is suchwan.
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