The Complete Chile Pepper Book - signed copies. Bosland & DeWitt

Wildfire Chilli Australia

Wildfire Chilli Australia

Hi everyone

We will be stocking the new book by Paul Bosland and Dave DeWitt. I have asked them to sign some faceplates for my customers so if you want a signed copy, please preorder from me in the next few days - sales@wildfirechilli.com.au

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This book is excellent for both beginner and the more experienced chilli head. It goes into detail of the different species and pod shapes to how to breed your own type of chilli! This has everything you would ever need to know and includes : top 100 chillies for the garden, history, cultivation, processing and preserving and cooking with chillies plus a lot more.

It is a hardcover book with a wrap around cover and has 336 pages of information with lovely colour pictures and illustrations.

So you can get a signed copy for only $39! A must have to improve your knowledge on the wonderful subject of chilli. Postage is $7.50 for W.A and $10 for the rest of Aus. PRE ORDER NOW. sales@wildfirechilli.com.au


Some interesting articles in the book include : how to make candied chillies, how to grow with hydroponics, pests and diseases, the quest for the hottest chilli and skepticism surrounding it and how to make chilli flavoured Vodka.

I will post more info later and a few more pics of the book.
 
Hi Nova

To tell you the truth I actually haven't had time to read much of it yet but it looks pretty good so far. Goes into a bit more detail than other books do and has a fair bit on pests and diseases but is not as technical as a science book or like Boslands book - Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums (then again this one cost me way over $100).
Here is a list of contents:

About Chillies:
Botany
Domestication and dispertion

Top 100 or so chile peppers for the garden:
C. pubescens
C. frutescens
C. baccatum
C. chinense
C. annuum

Capsicum Cultivation:
Planning the crop
Garden Design
Composting
Soil & garden preparation
Seeds & seedlings
The Growth Cycle
Container Cultivation
Diseases & Pest
Breeding & hybridization
Capsaicin and the quest for the hottest pepper

Processing and Preservation:
Processing and freezing of fresh chillies
Canning & pickling
Drying,smoking,powders,and spice blends
Creative preservation

Cooking wit Chile Peppers:
Beverages and Sauces
Appetizers, snacks and salads
Soups and stews
Main dishes
Side dishes
Desserts and Sweets

Resources
Glossary of specialised chile pepper terms
selected bibliography
index
 
A few of the pages, sorry about the quality

Candied Chillies
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Ornamentals
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Seeds and Seedlings
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Recipe - Grilled Green Chile-Stuffed Pepper Steaks wrapped in bacon
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Also some good info on: keeping seed pure and how to isolate, flowering and pollination, crossing possibilities,improving yields,hints for cold weather growing, bonsai chillies (Jukkas pics and some info), making your own chile pepper hybridizations (with instructions and close up pics) and lots of yummy recipes.
 
Got this book for Xmas, have only skimmed it so far, but it seems pretty informative. Of course, mine wasn't autographed...:(
 
got the book a few months ago. It's definitely a good one. They always seem to fill the book with recipes which is annoying, but this one gets more specific than other chili books I've seen. An interesting read.
 
Ballzworth said:
got the book a few months ago. It's definitely a good one. They always seem to fill the book with recipes which is annoying, but this one gets more specific than other chili books I've seen. An interesting read.
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Yeh thats what anoys me also,
I want a book on peppers not a cook book, I recon they should bring out a new edition with an update of all their books in 2 Parts , one the technical stuff, the other the recipies
 
Yeah that anooys me too because they usually use generic recipes and you have 3 or 4 books and half the recipes are the same including the photos, they must buy them from a library type thing and add to their books. The thing with these recipes are that they are actually different and there are some quite interesting ones in there that I will def be trying.
 
Ok I have just been told I am getting the UK version so the cover will be different. This is good though as they have everything in metric units and they spell like us (Chilli not Chile). So hope that is ok with everyone? I wish I got this one now as when I'm reading it is so hard to try and convert sizes.

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Tkromer said:
Expensive to ship this to the US?
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I'm sure we can buy this here in the US. Dewitt is in New Mexico right? So it probably originates here anyway.

Candice, are you familiar with prior versions of this book. I have one from ten years ago. I was just wondering if it is updated much?
 
Doh! Sorry, just saw the post above JayT's.
 
JayT said:
I'm sure we can buy this here in the US. Dewitt is in New Mexico right? So it probably originates here anyway.

Candice, are you familiar with prior versions of this book. I have one from ten years ago. I was just wondering if it is updated much?
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No I'm not sorry. You can find it on Amazon though and yes it does originate in the US.
Above I have listed the table of contents, do they look the same to your older book? It does have the Bhut Jolokia and the new types of NuMex varieties so in that regard all the chillies are probably updated, and Im sure there are new methods to preserving etc than 10 years ago. Worth a look I reckon.
 
The book seems fairly up to date which is nice, but to be honest, I've had the book since September and only opened it once or twice just to make sure that 75% of it wasn't recipes (only 30% is). It seems like it goes into peppers you wouldn't expect to see in a book so chili heads would enjoy it. But really, the real information, ideas, debates, inventions, suggestions etc.... I've received from this site which is probably why I haven't looked too much at the book.
 
JayT said:
I'm sure we can buy this here in the US. Dewitt is in New Mexico right? So it probably originates here anyway.

Candice, are you familiar with prior versions of this book. I have one from ten years ago. I was just wondering if it is updated much?
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It's a completely different book than the two books DeWitt or Bosland released in the past, The Pepper Garden and Peppers of the World: An Identification Guide. So this new one is not just a reprint of either one of those with a few words or paragraphs added or edited here or there.

There's lots of newer chile peppers and techniques in it that wouldn't have been around 10+ years ago. The Complete Chile Pepper Book an all-around good, basic guide to gardening and keeping chiles. While expert chile pepper growers may not get a whole lot from it, there's still an occasional nugget of knowledge here and there that make it worth owning. And thankfully the recipes have been kept to a minimum (Ballzworth's estimate of 30% seems about right). I'd give it a letter grade of A-.
 
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