Wednesday, 4 February 2026

The nature vs nurture of food: 12 (Chilli with everything)


I've come to know quite a few Mauritians in the last five years or so.


    One of the things I've noticed about them is that they share Singaporean people's love of chilli / spicy food.


    An extreme example is from a visit to the home of two of them, a married couple. At afternoon tea time, which is supposed the English style with tea, cake and/or biscuits, the wife sat down to her biscuit with a fresh, whole red chilli between her fingers -- to be eaten with every nibble of her biscuit.


(Crawley, near Gatwick Airport, 2024)


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