chili pepperzz in the land of superlatives
9 November, 2007 | 7 comments | Category: ethnicity
I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!
the red hot sizzle of chili is soo good for u, it is medicative!!! no wonder my auntie used to tell me to eat chili when i got a cold.
Not only am i’m an addict of hot sizzle chili, i’m also a lover of all foods *spicy*…so when BBC bust it out that scientists “can harness the heat in chili peppers and adapt it to combat inflammation in arthritis.”
i was all like ‘woaaaaahhh hot tamale’! or rather ‘abet Qaria’!
i’m the little girl who used to concoct pastes of berbere & butter, berbere & water to be eaten with injera for breakfast, lunch or afternoon snack. i would spread dollops of it on injera being heated on a mitad clay plate which seeps the moisure from spongy pores transforming injera to crunch-ilicious Qategna… *|mouth watering|*… i was one to mix lemon squeeze with berebere that goes on top of rice with salsa, i would chop up green chili to make some ‘pasta saltata’, add more hot hot mitmita to kitfo …i’m still that little girl…
…with one difference! Now, when someone obliquely & proudly (!??) proclaims the unmatched heat & spiciness of Ethiopian cuisines, my eyebrow pricks up into an arc…
i’ve come across chili in varieties… Ghanaian Sheto sauce with fish, shrimp in the marinade is extremely potent, while the Thai method of splashing pickled, ground or oiled chili mixed with seeds is nothing short of flaming tearjerker if overdone ever so slightly! other… indians, turks, mexicans… use chili across their cuisines in various forms…while some, exhibit exceptional cultural idiosyncrasies like some crazy naija people who carry emergency packets of ‘peppe’ everywhere! or the Filipinos & Koreans eating chilli leaves? *|yet another priceless eyebrow raising moment!|*
stereotypically… ethiopians believe their tongues withhold the very feistiest of many a pepper & their cuisine uses it! …which should not be much of a surprise given they readily embrace many a superlative about ethiopia/ians… ethiopians the most beautiful people of the world, with the most fertile and green landscapes on earth, the fiercest warriors that defied all colonial rule, the fastest of people, living in the ‘origin of civilization and humankind’, the home of selected people by God to protect the arc of the covenant… yadi ya…content ubernationalism makes gorgeous-est and spice-desensitized-tongued Ethiopians ssssssssssssssmooookiiiinnnn’ …
….chili pepperzz FYI
“The Naga Jolokia (Bhut Jolokia, Ghost Chili, Ghost Pepper, Naga Morich) is a chili pepper that grows in northeastern India (Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur) and Bangladesh. It was confirmed by Guinness World Records to be the hottest chili in the world…”
chili peppers are implicated with many health benefits! …and disbenefits… *|blink|*
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Caricatures
6 November, 2007 | No comments | Category: love.of.words!, poetry
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