- Paperback: 245 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (July 27 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0679744274
- ISBN-13: 978-0679744276
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
That the taste of peppers on the tongue can be addictive is one of the revelations made in this exhaustive treatise. Illustrations.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Here's everything you'd ever want to know about peppers from someone who truly loves them. Naj, a journalist with The Wall Street Journal , enthusiastically chronicles his quest for information about chiles and the people who crave, cultivate, and classify them. Peppered throughout with many amusing anecdotes about this pungent fruit and its devotees, this well-researched book is as entertaining as it is informative. Unlike Mark Miller's The Great Chile Book (Ten Speed Pr., 1991), which merely describes and illustrates the more common varieties, Naj's title details the beneficial medicinal properties of peppers, the techniques designed to measure their hotness, the process of breeding exotic varieties, the great chile sauce war, and other little-known but intriguing facts. Essential for all libraries whose patrons enjoy hot, spicy food.
- Linda Chopra, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Linda Chopra, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
What Food Writing Is All About,
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This review is from: Peppers: A Story of Hot Pursuits (Paperback)
Amal Naj's "Peppers" is now more than ten years old, but, if anything, these hot darlings are even more in favor with the American public than they used to be. I'm sure Naj would add a chapter or two if he were writing today, but the book is nevertheless delightful. I particularly enjoyed Naj's coverage of the attempts to find possible living ancestors of modern day "chilies" in South America, and the importance such research has to the protection of the modern agricultural crop. His extensive writing on the war for the "Tabasco" trade mark is first-class storytelling. Of course, as a New Mexican, I do enjoy reading many pages of lore about our state's most important crop. The most flavorful peppers are indeed New Mexican.(...)
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Peppers,
By Lake E. High, Jr. (Columbia, SC United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Peppers: A Story of Hot Pursuits (Hardcover)
This book was a great read despite the fact that one would not ordinarily expect it to be so given the subject matter. It was so well written that I found myself reading whole chapters of it out loud to my wife. The author makes an obscure sublect (how many books have you read just on the lore of peppers?) enjoyable. The author covers the history of the subject all the way back to the first peppers growing wild in the South American mountains and brings it up to date including the new work being done in agricultural labs. Plus, he goes into the differences in types of peppers as well as a remarkable number of culinary and cultural aspects of the subject. All that, plus being a page turner. After planting a growing five kinds of peppers (and bottling them for family and friends) I'm getting a second copy of "Peppers" to give to my son as a present. He likes hot peppers too so I know he will enjoy this well written and interesting book. By the way, the book "Peppers" is not where I got the instructions for the growing and bottleing of the peppers, that came from a friend. But he, too, had a copy of "Peppers" and had enjoyed it greatly. It's a book for current, and future, pepper aficionados.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great pepper lore for all chiliheads,
By jn@es-c.dk (Odense, Denmark) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Peppers: A Story of Hot Pursuits (Paperback)
Being born in India you should expect Amal Naj to have been raised on peppers. Funnily enough his love for hot pursuits originated in Northern Ireland after living on potatoes and other bland foods for a long time. He sets of on a journey around the world tracking down peppers, salsas, stories of old and people in the pepper business. And what an amazing bunch.From the huge farms in New Mexico to the highlands of Bolivia and on to Yucatan for a hot encounter with the habanero. A word of warning: If you are japanese dont eat in restaurants with Mayans in the kitchen. Altogether a very enjoyable book and a good read for everybody who likes to bite into the pungent pods - and to be bitten back.
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