1. True or False: Chili peppers were used in Cervantes Spain and show up in great ancient cuisines of China, India, Indonesia, Italy, and Caribbean, France, and the Arab States.

2. True or False: Don Juan de Onate entered what is now New Mexico in 1598 and brought with him the green Chile pepper. It has grown there for nearly four hundred years since.

3. True or False: Canary Islanders, transplanted in San Antonio as early as 1723, used local peppers, wild onions, garlic, and other spices to concoct pungent meat dishes - improvising upon ones they had cooked for generations in their native land, where Chili pepper also grew.

4. True or False: Have you heard of the last supper? Well, rumor has it that George Burns loved cigars and chili. He loved them so much that he ate a bowl of chili for dinner and smoked a cigar on the night he died.

5. True or False: The world's first chili championship was held in Terlingua, Texas.

 


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