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Family: Chilli

Every fresh, dried and ground chilli the atlas names; capsicum peppers are their own family

The chilli, followed

One plant, thirteen food worlds, and only seven dates anyone wrote down. What the chilli meant in each place it reached, in the words of the people who were there, ending each time on a dish you can cook.

The chilli, followed

In this family

Cooked with in 256 dishes across 28 food worlds

West Africa · 22 dishes

Central Africa · 4 dishes

The Horn · 7 dishes

North Africa · 5 dishes

East Africa and the Islands · 6 dishes

Southern Africa · 1 dishes

The Levant and Anatolia · 6 dishes

The Gulf and Arabia · 2 dishes

Persia and the Caucasus · 2 dishes

The Indian subcontinent · 49 dishes

The Sinosphere · 15 dishes

Mainland Southeast Asia · 10 dishes

Maritime Southeast Asia · 20 dishes

Korea and Japan · 7 dishes

The Mediterranean · 1 dishes

Iberia · 21 dishes

Central Europe · 5 dishes

The Slavic east and the Balkans · 7 dishes

Britain and Ireland · 7 dishes

Mesoamerica · 16 dishes

The Caribbean · 17 dishes

The Andes · 3 dishes

Amazonia · 3 dishes

The Southern Cone · 5 dishes

North America · 11 dishes

Mainland Brazil · 1 dishes

Aotearoa and Australia · 1 dishes

Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia · 2 dishes

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