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Capsicum Peppers Origin
Capsicum is a genus of plants in the family of Solanaceae cultivated for thousands of years by the peoples of tropical America.
The term or Chile pepper is widely used and refers only the smaller, hot types of peppers fruit. Your spelling is common in Spanish although the name varies depending on location. For example, South America is best known as chili, peppers or hot pepper, while U.S. is called pepper and in Canada and the United Kingdon and pepper only.
The spelling of this word is very important to make the difference between the capsicum "Chile" and the country Chile, which is named after the Quechua chin ("in cold "), tchili (" snow "), or derivatives (" where the land ends ").
There also is some disagreement about whether it is correct use the word "pepper" when discussing chili peppers because "pepper" originally referred to the genus Piper, pepper. Despite this controversy, sense to refer to the capsicum pepper with the support of English dictionaries.
While chiles are considered a vegetable, they become hot sauces hot pepper powder to be used as a spice in culinary dishes.
Since at least 7500 years before Christ, peppers were domesticated by prehistoric man starting in southern Peru to northern Mexico in the Americas. Some of these countries use pepper fruits for medicinal purposes.
In most European countries and in the continental United States, only occurs jalapeño habanero peppers, but do not grow well because of the weather. Only in San Diego or Florida, they survive from one growing season to the next.
Around for 6000 years, archaeological work in southwest Ecuador peppers found evidence to show crop products which have been one of the first products grown in the human diet.
It was only after the time of Columbus when chiles were known and grown throughout the world. He was one of the first Europeans to did these fruits of Capsicum. Because of its similarity in taste to the Old World peppers of the genus Piper, decided to give the same name, so associating them with known Asian spice.
In 1493, Diego Alvarez Chanca, a physician on the second voyage of Columbus brought the first title = "habanero pepper" pepper peppers> to Spain and to assess their medical effects. Since then, trade between Mexico began as a Spanish colony in Asia. Pepper spread rapidly in the Philippines, India, China, Korea and Japan, where they were incorporated into local dishes.
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Guillermo Cooks Aji de Gallina
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