Why Cooks Spice Up Their Foods

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Why Cooks Spice Up Their Foods by Dave DeWitt There are a number of explanations for why we have added spices such as chile peppers to our foods over the tens or hundreds of thousands of years that we have been cooking. They are: Spices make foods taste better. The “eat-to-sweat hypothesis”–eating spicy foods makes us cool down during hot …