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Steven King, the bon
vivant and wine and chili aficionado,
picking His Peppers.
How important is it for us to eat spicy food? Most
Thai and Lao dishes are very spicy, if we don’t eat chili pepper or fish
sauce, there seems to be something missing. Personally, I
like to eat spicy food, the spicier the better. My mom also uses the
leaves of the chili pepper as vegetable and put it into her dish, such
as ‘oum kai’. Some of this interesting information about
chili pepper below is from Kullastree Magazine by Phetrut Houphanyakit
written in Thai language, translated by Nye.
Chili pepper is packed with all the vitamins and
minerals, such as protein, calcium, zinc, beta-carotene, vitamin A, B1,
B2, and C. 1 small chili pepper has more vitamin C than 1 lemon or
orange. It also contains vitamin A, as much as 50% of the
daily recommend dosage.
The origin of pepper was from Mexico and South
America; the Latino brought it to Asia over 400 years ago. The red
coloring of the pepper is called capsanthin, which sometimes is used for
food coloring. The spicy portion is called capsaicin, which
helps to increase your appetite, alleviate gas, and with blood
circulation. If you’ve noticed, those that eat very spicy food, their
face, eyes would turn red because of good blood circulation; you can
extract this portion and turns it into medicine that could be used for
headache, bloatedness, and skin disorders.
If you touch the chili pepper by accident and feel
the burning sensation on your skin, you can use lemon or lime juice to
wash out the area and this will alleviate the burning sensation. If you
accidental eat chili pepper, you can drink milk because it has casein,
which helps alleviate the spiciness. Pepper is also
considered negative food diet; therefore, it’s good to eat spicy food.
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of Agriculture and Home Economics
The first of last
season's peppers coming in......photo below.....
Bernie's
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And for something
different.....
My brother-in-law Al Miner,
Makes the best oak-cooked Salmon in the world, and eats lots of the
hottest chilis in the world, He grows them too. His beer,
Corona Light.
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