Re: [CH] piri piri - more

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>Now the other piece of trivia to confuse the issue even more.
>Also a chance for someone that has a piece of the puzzle to make
>a connection.  Piripiri is a town in Brazil
>
>So what is the connection between a town in Brazil and Zanzibar
>off the east coast of Africa that has as a result the swahili
>word piri (hot) and the adopted use by the Portuguese of
>Mozambique and South Africa (possibly others) to describe a
>style of cooking?
How about the fact that both Mozambique and Brazil have a history of
Portugese colonisation and probably had administrative personnel who moved
between colonies?
That'd do it for me...
Dave in CT

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