History of the super hot peppers You will find apples in many of the homes in North America, as common as apples are to the US there isn’t a home in this Trinidad or Tobago without pepper sauce. The locals in this country believe that food prepared without pepper is bland, boring, tasteless and useless. Peppers are native to Central and South America and were found in present-day Bolivia some 10,000 years ago. When Columbus sailed into the Caribbean waters, he discovered peppers amongst the islands and that the natives had been enjoying peppers for many centuries. He mistook the hot pepper to be a cousin of the black pepper, which is why it is referred today as “pepper”. A few decades after Columbus, Spanish and Portuguese trading vessels took hot peppers to Africa, the Middle East, to Persia and India, Southeast Asia and China. In later years, European colonists introduced peppers into North America, thus completing the pepper pod’s circumnavigation of the globe. The history and stories about the super hot peppers date back as far as 500 B.C
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:54:11 +0000
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