Re: [CH] Peri-Peri?? Piri-Piri?

Dave Anderson (Chilehead@tough-love.com)
Fri, 5 May 2000 16:40:23 -0700

Now I'm beginning to understand why my "Hot Hot Hot Collection" 
is my best selling seed collection. Maybe I should add a couple 
more varieties and call it "Hot Hot Hot Hot" :-)

Dave Anderson
TLCC

> Piri piri (swahili) simply means "hot hot" and in African
> tradition the double use of a word is for emphasis.  It would
> be used to describe a chile, *any* chile that was hot, not a
> particular type of sauce or dish.  In exactly the same way the 
> english use of chile does not equal sauce.
> 
> Interesting but not surprising the only other use of this double 
> word that I could find with a quick check was Arabic - 
> filfilakhmar =  red chile. 
> 
> See Jean Andrews p9
> 
> So pili pili, piri piri.... sauce is "hot hot" sauce or chile 
> sauce.  And chicken piri piri or piri piri chicken is chicken 
> cooked with chiles.
> 
> Pili pili..piri piri on its own is a chile of no particular type. 
> ;-)
> 
> Peter