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