[Aztlan] Hot chili peppers in the blistering sun

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hola, Listeros--

AP/Yahoo 2/15/07:

"Chili peppers have ancient history"

"Who says food fads can't last? Thousands of years before the advent of
Tex-Mex, ancient Americans were spicing up stew with red hot chili peppers.

New fossil evidence shows prehistoric people from southern Peru up to the
Bahamas were cultivating varieties of chilies millennia before Columbus'
arrival brought the spice to world cuisine.

The earliest traces so far are from southwestern Ecuador, where families
fired up meals with homegrown peppers about 6,100 years ago.

The discovery, reported Friday in the journal Science, suggests early New
World agriculture was more sophisticated than once thought."

More:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070215/ap_on_sc/ancient_peppers

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