RE: [CH] Chiles & Ancient Cuisine
Tina Brooks (shoestring_louise@yahoo.com)
Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:06:07 -0800 (PST)
I have been looking for significant proof that
chillies might have developed independently on the
Asian continent, but all of the science I have seen to
date says no.
That doesn't mean it didn't happen. It just means that
I personally have seen no proof.
T
--- Alex Silbajoris <asilbajo@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> >From: Rob Solarion <robs@dctexas.net>
>
> >The author of the report, Linda Perry, says the
> findings will change
> >perceptions about the sophistication of food on the
> continent,
> >thousands of years before Christopher Columbus
> arrived.
> >
> >He took the chilli pepper to Europe, from where it
> spread to the rest of
> >the world.
>
> There is always speculation about whether anicient
> people had contacts, like
> did the polynesians sail to south america? I submit
> that chiles would be a
> marker of contact - if anyone sailed from south
> america, carrying chiles, to
> anywhere in asia, wouldn't chiles appear there?
>
> As far as I know there's no claim of chiles in asia
> before the westerners
> brought them - is that right?
>
>
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