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. |