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He's got a point though. How many spicy indigenous European dish can you name? The only commonly known one is named after Arabs.
You're right. The notable exceptions are southern Italian, Hungarian, and some Balkan cuisines have dishes with notable amounts of spice of them. There's also the argument that though it's a different mechanism for spicy, some mustards and horseradish usage in European cuisine might qualify as spicy. Varieties of English mustard and some German mustards especially in the Western parts of the country definitely give you that feeling of strong heat and are sometimes used very liberally within dishes.
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I find Ethiopian food very spicy and usually I like spicy food. The Kenyan food I can think of is not spicy (nyama choma, ugali, sukuma wiki). I've pretty much only had hotel food in Nigeria and South Africa and didn't find it spicy but it might have been adjusted for tourists.
I have over 100 spices in my spice rack and only a handful of them are just "hot".
Nice list, if a little short. I'll look these up next time I'm there.
The poster who said Europeans don't know how to season their food likely prefers a some heat in his/her diet, and as your small list shows those are very uncommon in Europe compared to other regions. Every cuisine has "strengths" and "weaknesses" if we can call it that. For example there's not much use of dairy in Chinese food.
In Nigeria, when it comes to spicy food. The preference of the person eating the food really matters. Jollof rice can be made without so much spice and it can also go the other way. The tribes called the yorubas really take a lot of spicy food. They add spice to literally anything. So this also applies to some west african countries as well.
For me personally, spicy foods are delicious. In short, foods without spice are easily tiring. [Mod cut: advertising]
Yeah right, it isn't like there was never an ancient and middle ages spice trade route along the silk road where spices made it to Europe. And it isn't like when the Ottoman Empire started to cut off those trade routes European merchants/sailors thought hey maybe we can sail to India by going West. And who knows maybe we will discover 2 new continents to populate. Nope none of that ever happened.
Europeans actually got chili peppers from the Americas before Asians and Africans, but unlike these other peoples chose to do NOTHING with them for 500 years. Anyone have a hypothesis as to why that is the case?
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