wrong Indian.

Is this a troll post?

As Lapis said, this site is for Indian food, Indian as in "of India".

Not Indian as previously used to describe the many diverse people now collectively referred to as Native Americans (unless this has been superceded by another term).

If anyone is interested in the confusing nomenclature, when Columbus set sail from Europe, heading West, he did not know about the Americas, and hoped to reach East Asia, which he referred to as the Indies. When he hit the Carribean and then East Coast of Americas, he thought he'd reached the Indies.

He labelled them West Indies, I think. And natives were referred to as Indians.

I think that's right but may be confusing some details, this is from memory. I probably should have wikied!

however we do have recipes for things like Spicy Fried Chicken using Steve's Secret Spicy Fried Chicken Mix which is no unlike the American food chains secret chicken mix... :-)

Steve

Who was it that introduced chillies into Europe by mistake, thinking they were pepper corns, was it Christopher Columbus? Some might think that it is a difficult mistake to make, but last year I dried the small pods from my tepin plants and once dry they look very similar to the dark green pepper corns that you can find in some stores. Is it safe to assume that all chilli pods started off round (about the size of a garden pea) but over the course of time, and with hybridisation, have become what we know them as today?

I couldn't make any sense of the original post. Maybe you are right and the original poster meant Indian food as in Native American food. If that is the case, then I suggest to the original poster that he go down the traditional Mayan route and start making up some recado pastes :o)

Sid.

I have bought about ?300's worth of Indian cookery books from Amazon; in one spell, I just blitzed their site, and bought loads, including one on South Indian food. When I started to read it, nearly all the dishes were spiceless and mostly made of sweetcorn. Yep, it was for American Indians (now called Amerindians, I believe).

I found a paperback book in Oxfam, that I had when I started to cook Indian food, but lost it on house moves. It was like finding a lost friend. I looked on Amazon, and found a few copies, I bought 8, some for as little as 1 pence!! + postage. The paperback breaks along the spine very easily, that's why I bought so many.

I don't think chillies were thought to be pepper, but a substitute for pepper, pepper was what CC was after. I think the first ones were collected by CC's doctor.

After all, after going that far, risking falling off the edge of the world, they had to come back with something other than gulls' eggs.