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By Melanie Yunk On Sunday, January 16, 2011, the four of us arrived at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, ready to sample every one of the 80,000 specialty foods on display. Well, a few of them, anyway. My husband, Kent, and colleague, Kim, and her husband, Tim, helped me navigate the aisles, and we found more than enough tasty …
For millennia, cayenne in its various forms has been considered to be beneficial to mankind both as a food and a medicine. Researching in Google Books, I came across the following uses for cayenne, which has become a generic term for any hot red chile powder. The Cayenned Canaries At any ordinary bird show, canaries of a special breed the …
A special menu | Bleu Bohème * Irvine Hospitality * Ken Irvine * Restaurants Kensington Sometimes we need to choose a special menu for our guests, let’s say that we are going to celebrate a special birthday or a marriage or another kind of important event in family. Each single situation requires a particular menu, we should also take care …
This seems to be one of the few historical worldwide surveys of chiles and their consumption globally. It is interesting for several reasons. First, it is the first debunking of the notion that chile seeds are hot that I have ever found; second, it reports on adulterated cayenne, a problem in India, England, and the U.S. for centuries; and third, …
Many folk remedies are made with chile peppers, as I detailed with two coauthors in The Healing Powers of Peppers (Three Rivers Pres, 1998). We discovered chile peppers being used in infusions, syrups, teas, tinctures, liniments, ointments, poultices, salves, and oils. Perhaps the most unusual treatments were two hot sauces, one to improve the appetite and the other to combat …
