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20 janvier 2022
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Jess Clark, « A Tale of Chiles, a Servant, and a Travelling Medical Scholar in Early Modern China », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tdc4
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By Brian Dott Fig. 1. A few of the many varieties of chiles available at a market in Kunming, Yunnan, China. (Image Credit: Dott, 2017) Fascinated by early modern Chinese cultural history, I research popular religion, especially pilgrimage, and the culinary and medical uses of chile peppers. Eating Sichuan food, I wondered “how did the Chinese begin to consume such a spicy, introduced plant?” All the myriad varieties of the chile pepper originated in the Americas. They probably reached ...