09-10-2009, 01:47 PM
Quote:Historically, it was European traders who introduced spicy (as we understand it, in the burning-hot sense, not the numbing-hot sense) food to Indonesia, Thailand, and India. The chili pepper is native to Mexico, not to Asia.
-Jester
Interesting....I didn't know that. I wonder what they were eating in India before the chilly peppers were cultivated there.