On: Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro

[teractiveodular]

It's even harder to imagine India without chillies.

[trueismywork → teractiveodular]

India used black pepper before chillies so things were just as hot. Just a different kind of hot.

[anthonypasq → trueismywork]

putting an extreme amount of black pepper in a dish does not make it unbearably spicy, it just makes it taste way too much like pepper.

theres definitely no way black pepper can be "just as hot" as chillies

[trueismywork → anthonypasq]

You haven't used really hot black peppers then. Also I say black peppers but also people used cloves and bay leaves.

It is a different spice so yeah, it doesn't burn the tongue but just heats up your body.