The Spice of Life - Chilies: A Dash Of Daring - 1983 BBC Production

[@celsius2433]

As a Hispanic boy, I love a good spicy mole chicken. So if that took 3 days to make, it better be a damn good one for the effort took to make it.

[@robt3078]

Fantastic documentaries. Thank you for uploading this.

[@Retrodag1]

More Spice Of Life episodes are being added now. Hope to have all up by next week!

[@hippojuice23]

+Retrodag1 Thank you so much!

[@nikolaos6083]

My mouth watered the entire video.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

I love these dated BBC programs (the most potent chilies are now produced in North Carolina, I.E. the "Carolina Reaper", which can send some people to the emergency room if eaten raw, not life threatening but it may feel like it is). When younger, before the internet, these programs were out of reach for most of America, only now can I access them. I literally put hot sauce on almost everything I eat, my favorite is Tabasco sauce ("Adds Tang and Flavor, not just Heat"), still fermented in the old way ("Life is Too Short for Bland Food").

[@adrianh332]

Same here, I'm from Britain and here we favour Carribean hot sauces like Encona it's about 6 times hotter than Tabasco. I can't eat without it and always have a couple of large bottles on hand.

[@brianfigueroa5340]

El Chile! a gift from God himself 🤩😍

[@oldtug]

Thank you for putting up episodes of this great series. I have been searching for YEARS trying to find sources.

[@jamesdooling4139]

If you're watching this now, know that the Terlingua Chili Cook-Off happens in 20 days and it's time to get your tickets! There's nothing like it in the world. It's the 53rd annual gathering this year. Come have a bowl or ten.

[@bingeltube]

Very recommendable

[@sookwilson1077]

Sept 2018, I tried Cambodia fresh tiny red pepper , it made me cry 😰 No mention of Thailand ? It has world spiciest cuisine ! ! !

[@waivedwench]

I want to try to make all these recipes, but I could never do it as well as they do.

[@gosmalaysia5170]

Ed woodward, before he works in Manchester Utd. 🤣

[@michaeltariga5285]

For some reason the SBS opening reminds me of Farcry Blood Dragon... or Kung Fury.

[@100westup]

they can never give any other race any credit. Mexico had already perfected chili. they know what to do with it what chilies were best with what and other things.

[@robertopena8645]

Mexico = chile

[@starbuono3333]

Mmmmmmm I just looooove chocolate mole !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SikanderG]

My favourite type of spice. That being said this documentary series is Western-centric and pro-colonial.

[@rootbeer4888]

Stop using most modern conveniences for they are "western-centric".

[@coltron3030]

there is a lecture about chiles put up by TeachEthnobotany that is very good. since this video was made they have found evidence chiles originate from the Orient for the most part (something always claimed by those in the area)

[@robotpanda77]

It sounds more like an issue of nationalistic pride. If chiles had existed in the orient then the European traders would have been familiar with them already since they had existing trade routes with Asia. India would have also been exposed to them from china and would have them at that time but India does not dispute they came to them from western traders. China may have had some similar vegetable but not chiles.

[@WR3ND]

Yeah, the Chinese can be a proud people. But unfortunately, some of that pride is misplaced in arbitrary things, like where a crop plant primarily originated. Don't get me wrong; other countries have similar issues too. Thankfully, many people are able to see beyond senseless nationalism.

[@erickchandra3771]

Chili absolutely is not china origin. Ancient Chinese didn't know chili, they just knew pepper and Sichuan peppercorns for spicy spice. At late 18 century people in Sichuan region started using chili in their cuisine, and it gradually replaced the Sichuan peppercorns's position for spiciness. Generally Chinese cuisine doesn't use chili extensively, except in Sichuan and Hunan cuisine. And FYI spicy cuisine has become popular through all of china just only since 1980's.

[@edwardbrown9019]

If the American chili pepper cultivated by the indigenous people of Mexico for thousands of years were not the only variety of the chili peppers of the world, then this can be easily proven as fact or fiction. I believe that both, the Indians and the Chinese, have records (recipes) of their anscestrial cuisine dating thousands of years before the discovery of the New World. And in fact, if these cultures indeed have the chili pepper present in their ancient cooking documents, then this without a doubt proves that their chili peppers are truly natives to their own homelands. But, by the same token: If the chili pepper is nowhere to be found in their dietary archives prior to the European settlements of the Americans. Then, their misleading claims of the chili pepper can also be proven to be a complete fallacy.

[@edwardbrown9019]

Also, if Chili Peppers were already growing in India and China it would have been already scattered all over the world buy Merchants before the discovery of the New World. And the chili pepper of the American continent would have not had the same impact as it did as a new spice commodity to the world.

[@drqazlop]

Dirty woman creek?

[@hattiewhitson7736]

drqazlop you said it wrong. You supposed to say “durrty woman crick!” And play big balls in cowtown on a kazoo 😋

[@mikebussy3334]

It's next to filthy whore bluff.

[@waivedwench]

There's a story behind that!!

[@adrianh332]

@@mikebussy3334 and close to hooker hill.

[@Wotdermatter]

The world's hottest chilies do not grow in India. Try Thailand, the Caribbean, and similar places, but not India, to my knowledge.

[@ryanexsus]

Remember this is 1983.

[@Wotdermatter]

Even then chillies from other countries were hotter than those of India.

[@WR3ND]

You never heard of the ghost pepper? Definitely one of the hottest if not the hottest region specific chilies in the world. Hotter peppers have been crossbred since then, but from peppers all over, not just local ones. Of course these all originated primarily in the central and southern Americas anyway, but have been bred and crossbred there and elsewhere around the world for hundreds of years since then.

[@Jackthebill]

Chillies by itself do not give any taste they have to be added with other ingredients to make the dishes flavourful otherwise it’s known to give pungent vibe inside the 👄

[@GaetanoPirulli]

Not true, they all have a different and very distinct flavour

[@jamesfrederick.]

lol I hate spicy food.

[@anttiruuskanen7126]

So you decided to come on a video specifically about chili peppers to bitch about it and ruin the fun for everyone? Fuck you...