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Paprika

Family: Chilli

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

Cooked with in 68 dishes across 19 food worlds

West Africa · 3 dishes

The Horn · 2 dishes

North Africa · 5 dishes

East Africa and the Islands · 1 dish

The Levant and Anatolia · 6 dishes

The Gulf and Arabia · 1 dish

Persia and the Caucasus · 2 dishes

The Sinosphere · 1 dish

Korea and Japan · 1 dish

The Mediterranean · 1 dish

Iberia · 7 dishes

France and the Alps · 1 dish

Central Europe · 13 dishes

The Slavic east and the Balkans · 7 dishes

Mesoamerica · 2 dishes

The Caribbean · 6 dishes

The Southern Cone · 2 dishes

North America · 6 dishes

Aotearoa and Australia · 1 dish

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