Description

Capsicum refers to both sweet and hot types of peppers, bells and chiles. These fruits have been revered for centuries in the New World, provide infinite use in the medicinal preparations, are embraced in culinary circles around the world, remain versatile in the kitchen, and come in a vast array of colors, heat and shapes. This book is brimming with every fact and facet of these plants from fragrance and flavor, botany and cultivation, lore and history to recipes and medicinal information.