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| The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia: Everything You'll Ever Need To Know About Hot Peppers, With More Than 100 Recipes | 
 enlarge | Author: Dave Dewitt
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 21758
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0688156118
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.6384
EAN: 9780688156114
ASIN: 0688156118
Publication Date: April 7, 1999
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Product Description
The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia has the answer to just about any question one could ask about chile peppers. Which chiles are the hottest? What country did the first chile plants come from? What popular brand of dandruff shampoo is made with chile peppers? Can chiles really be used to cure headaches? Even the most devoted "chile-heads" will be satisfied. The encyclopedia is researched and written by Dave Dewitt, the country's foremost expert on hot and spicy foods and longtime editor-in-chief of Chile Pepper magazine.In addition to entries on chile species, culture, terminology, and agriculture, the encyclopedia includes more than one hundred fiery recipes like Madras Fried Chile Fritters from India and Jamaican Jerk Chicken Wings are sure to please any hot-and-spicy food lover. Black and white drawings and photographs, charts, and graphs appear throughout, and an eight page insert includes color photographs of dozens of varieties of chiles, invaluable for identification. The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia is an indispensable sourcebook for chile aficionados, gardeners, cooks, and anyone else who has a burning interest in fiery foods.
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 Encyclopedia November 22, 2008
This is a very informative ENCYCLOPEDIA about peppers. If you want history, origin and facts about peppers this book will give you the information. I hoped to have more recipes in one location versus having to search for them. I gave it a 5 star because it is well written for researchers or students.
 Not so much March 9, 2008
I thought this book would be more than what it was. The information is great, and really well researced, but the book itself isnt so hot. No color pictures, not enough pictures, and just really bland. I got it for a good price but that is really all I got out of it.
Decent book, but not what I would call an Encyclopedia January 9, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this book with hopes of having some detailed information and color pictures of about most of the major types of peppers out there. That is not in this book.
As a book goes, it's a fairly decent book, plenty of interesting information about peppers, recipes, information about different types, South American cultures and so on, but the photos are only black and white, and no detailed photos of peppers or plants are in the book. I think that calling it an encyclopedia was a misnomer.
 From a gourmet cook by hobby, and former Educator January 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I returned this book to Amazon, because there were no color pictures of any of the myriad hot peppers discussed therein. There is no real way to identify a particular type of pepper with only a black and white drawing/photo.
As someone who taught school from elementary to university level, I can say that learners, especially me, would greatly benefit by viewing color photos of the various hot peppers discussed in this publication.
 Worth a read..... September 20, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is truly an encyclopedia, giving more detail and history than most folks would ever want to know about the chili pepper. For the chili-head, though, it is must have knowledge. I enjoyed it.
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