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Hot Peppers: The Story of Cajuns and Capsicum Paperback - 1999

by Richard Schweid

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Smitten by a love of hot peppers, journalist Schweid presents an entertaining exploration of the history and folklore that surrounds these beauties and takes a fascinating look at the industry built around the fiery crop.

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Smitten by a love of hot peppers, journalist Richard Schweid traveled to the capital of the U.S. hot sauce industry, New Iberia, Louisiana. This is Cajun country, and capsicum (as hot peppers are known botanically) thrive in the region's salty, oil-rich soil like nowhere else. At once an entertaining exploration of the history and folklore that surround hot peppers and a fascinating look at the industry built around the fiery crop, Schweid's book also offers a sympathetic portrait of a culture and a people in the midst of economic and social change.

This edition of Hot Peppers has been thoroughly updated and includes some twenty-five recipes for such deliciously spicy dishes as crawfish touffe, jambalaya, and okra shrimp gumbo.

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A seeming paradox of the human condition is that pleasure and pain are parts of the same sensory spectrum, and that there is no clear division between them.

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A newly revised edition of Richard Schweid 's memorable account of the history and folklore of hot peppers and the hot sauce industry in the Cajun country of Louisiana. Includes some twenty-five recipes for such deliciously spicy dishes as crawfish touff, jambalaya, and okra shrimp gumbo.

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  • Title Hot Peppers: The Story of Cajuns and Capsicum
  • Author Richard Schweid
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised Edition
  • Pages 182
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
  • Publication date 1999-11-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780807848265 / 0807848263
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 5.57 x 0.48 in (23.52 x 14.15 x 1.22 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
  • Category Cooking / Wine
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99-28114
  • Dewey Decimal Code 641.338

About the author

Richard Schweid is a journalist and author who lives in Barcelona, Spain. His other books include Catfish and the Delta: Confederate Fish Farming in the Mississippi Delta, Barcelona: Jews, Transvestites, and an Olympic Season, and The Cockroach Papers.

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