Wednesday 20 July 2011

Ainslie chilli powder


As mentioned in blog below. Not as hot as the Daintree Chilli I take it.

Sunday 17 July 2011

chilli world tour1.1 less exclusive?

Well this world tour thing isn't going to work if it relies too much on me.

 I will be in New York (and Montreal) later in the year, and I can certainly find some cultural and culinary connections, although I'm not sure  how or when the chilli got to the European settlers in  North America, exactly.  Clearly there's a lot of Mexico and Latin America more generally in the US now....

 But as Fran points out below, there is also Australia to explore in that context, I understand that she's in Cairns or will be soon..

 And Amanda will be in Zanzibar shortly, which really was a Portuguese trading hotspot in the  early 16th centre -  the years of the great chilli spread.

 So I'm thinking of how I could open up the world tour to guest bloggers.  Either simply add comments or email me in the first instance..

 meanwhile I've baked all our post frost chillies here in Ainslie and ground them don to make a nice bity slightly smoky powder.

 keep the fire burning.