The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia: Everything Youll Ever Need To Know About Hot Peppers, With More Than 100 Recipes
by Dave Dewitt
Category: Reference

An exhaustive A-to-Z collection of entries on everything you'll ever need to know about chiles. You'll learn about chile species, origins, terminology, cuisines, & agriculture. Medicinal uses & chile folklore are covered in often painful detail -- for example, 19th-century Peruvians believed that the juice of crushed chiles applied to the eyes would cure conjunctivitis. There's information on chile fairs & festivals & hot sauces & salsas. Attempts to settle the debate over the origin of the most famous chile dish, chile con carne. More than 100 hot & spicy recipes, including a few spicy desserts. Drawings, photos, charts, & tables. Dozens of color photos of chile types, invaluable for identification.