Sunday, February 18, 2007

Americans Cooked With Chili Peppers 6,000 Years Ago, Study Finds

A recent article in National Geographic reports that Americans were using chili peppers in cooking 6000 years ago. This points towards a more advanced agrarian society with more sophisticated cuisine. The interesting thing here is that this seems to have happened before the advent of pottery. Some researchers theorized that this type of cultivation did not occur prior to the introduction of pottery.

Now I know why I love spicy food!

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