The devil's dinner : a gastronomic and cultural history of chili peppers /
Walton, Stuart,
The devil's dinner : a gastronomic and cultural history of chili peppers / Stuart Walton. - First edition. - xxi, 296 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Our favorite spice: all about chili -- Apaches, vipers, and dragons: types of chili -- Spice of America: the chili in its homelands -- Three ships come sailing: The Columbian exchange -- Blazing a trail: Chili's journey through Asia and Africa -- "Red and incredibly beautiful": chili goes to China -- From piri piri to paprika: European variations -- Bowls o' red and chili queens: an American affair -- Pepper sauce: a global obsession -- Taste and touch: how chili peppers work -- The devil's dinner: discovering the dark side of chili -- Hot stuff: chilies and sex -- Fighting talk: weaponized chili -- Superhots and chiliheads: the cult of chili -- Man food: how chili became a guy thing -- The globalization of taste: can chili save us?
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.
9781250163202 125016320X
2018022094
Hot peppers--History.
Cooking (Hot peppers)--History.
Food habits--History.
The devil's dinner : a gastronomic and cultural history of chili peppers / Stuart Walton. - First edition. - xxi, 296 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Our favorite spice: all about chili -- Apaches, vipers, and dragons: types of chili -- Spice of America: the chili in its homelands -- Three ships come sailing: The Columbian exchange -- Blazing a trail: Chili's journey through Asia and Africa -- "Red and incredibly beautiful": chili goes to China -- From piri piri to paprika: European variations -- Bowls o' red and chili queens: an American affair -- Pepper sauce: a global obsession -- Taste and touch: how chili peppers work -- The devil's dinner: discovering the dark side of chili -- Hot stuff: chilies and sex -- Fighting talk: weaponized chili -- Superhots and chiliheads: the cult of chili -- Man food: how chili became a guy thing -- The globalization of taste: can chili save us?
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.
9781250163202 125016320X
2018022094
Hot peppers--History.
Cooking (Hot peppers)--History.
Food habits--History.