Re: [CH] piri piri - more
Myron Menaker (myronm@bellsouth.net)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 09:09:35 -0400
Dave Williams wrote:
>
> Subject: [CH] piri piri - more
>
> >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...
Possibly, but more likely the connection is the two million slaves who
were shipped from East Africa to plantations in Brazil.
Myron in Florida
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