Re: A thread for hot pepper-a-holics...
Here's some hints---------
Neither one is hot, not even a little.
They are used extensively in cooking throughout the Carribean countries. They are a principle ingredient in Sofito in Puerto Rico and Venezuela for example.
These peppers were one of the new world foods that became part of Latin cooking. The European colonists got them from the Taino and Arawak indians.
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