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Met someone from Trinidad

capsidadburn

capsidadburn

Yesterday my daughter and I stopped in a spice shop in Austin. We had been there once before and loved the visit. We had bought some nice salts, honey powder (for daughter), Vanilla bean sugar. Yesterday I got some mole powders and some maple sugar. The conversation with the person behind the counter (never got her name) turned to hot peppers and she referenced the "ghost" "world record holder" to me. I politely let her know that the bhut jolokia was no longer the record holder and that most of the hottest peppers are from Trinidad.

She stated that she was from Trinidad and that all they had were scotch bonnets and habaneros. She was familiar with the Chiguanas region, but not Moruga or Barrackpore. She corrected my butchering of the Chiguanas pronunciation. She-guainus

She was so excited to learn this, her dad is a gardner and wondered if the Trinidad peppers would grow here (Texas heat). I told her they would and gave her Judy's and Beth's web addresses to get going.

Looking forward to going back to see how she does. I will point her towards THP next time.

Good day, Mike
 
I've talked to and met a lot of Trinidadians over the years and it seems most of them, even many chile lovers, had not heard of the 7 pot/pod, scorpions, or many of the other Trinidad landrace type chiles until recently. Its also strange that they refer to many C. chinenses as Scotch bonnets and habaneros when to us these are a very specific variety from specific geographical areas/regions. They also have a tendancy to call large podded C.chinenses congo peppers, and many like to name their varieties after the shape of the pod, like: cherries, nipples, and lanterns
 
Pimiento de padron, Datil, Serrano, Bulgarian Carrot, Hot CHerry, Rocoto, Jalapeno, Anaheim, Poblano, .... Depending what I in the mood for.
 
I have roccoto on next years grow,and have heard great things about datils!
Bulgarian carrot? Hmm I'll have to read on that one,along with the padron:)
Thx LD
 
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