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Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > General cookery > Cookery by ingredient > Cooking with herbs & spices
Despite their fearsome reputation, chillies have helped to shape
the identities of innumerable world cuisines. Chillies traces the
culinary journey of the spice and uncovers cultural and spiritual
links between chillies and humans, from their use as an
aphrodisiac, to the recent discovery that chilli heat shows promise
as a treatment for neuropathic pain, prostate cancer and leukaemia.
It also makes a compelling link between the history of global trade
and conflict and the spread of spicy cuisine worldwide. Peppered
with lively anecdotes and details of chilli taxonomy and ecology,
this entertaining history is sure to spice up your bookshelf.
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