The devil's dinner
Subtitle: a gastronomic and cultural history of chili peppers
By: Stuart Walton
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781250163202
Subjects: Food habits; History; Cooking (Hot peppers); Hot peppers
Description: The Devil's Dinner is the first authoritative history of chili peppers. There are countless books on cooking with chilies, but no book goes into depth about the biological, gastronomical, and cultural impact this forbidden fruit has had upon people all over the world. The story has been too hot to handle. A billion dollar industry, hot peppers are especially popular in the United States, where a superhot movement is on the rise. Hot peppers started out in Mexico and South America, came to Europe with returning Spanish travelers, lit up Iberian cuisine with piri-piri and pimientos, continued along eastern trade routes, boosted mustard and pepper in cuisines of the Indian subcontinent, then took overland routes to central Europe in the paprika of Hungarian and Austrian dumplings, devilled this and devilled that--they've been everywhere! The Devil's Dinner tells the history of hot peppers and captures the rise of the superhot movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Our favorite spice: all about chili; title: Apaches, vipers, and dragons: types of chili; title: Spice of America: the chili in its homelands; title: Three ships come sailing: The Columbian exchange; title: Blazing a trail: Chili's journey through Asia and Africa; title: "Red and incredibly beautiful": chili goes to China; title: From piri piri to paprika: European variations; title: Bowls o' red and chili queens: an American affair; title: Pepper sauce: a global obsession; title: Taste and touch: how chili peppers work; title: The devil's dinner: discovering the dark side of chili; title: Hot stuff: chilies and sex; title: Fighting talk: weaponized chili; title: Superhots and chiliheads: the cult of chili; title: Man food: how chili became a guy thing; title: The globalization of taste: can chili save us?