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a tiny red dictator that runs your entire dinner from the spice rack.
means A pungent, fiery red powder made from dried and ground hot chili peppers, used to add sharp heat to food.
from The name comes from the Tupi word 'kyinha' (sometimes given as 'quiínia'), the language of Indigenous peoples in Brazil, naming the pepper itself. It traveled through Portuguese and French into English, and along the way got tangled up with the city of Cayenne in French Guiana — so the popular assumption is that the spice is named for the port, but really the resemblance is more coincidence than ancestry; the Tupi root came first.
- heat scale
- around 30,000 to 50,000 Scoville units
- named for
- the capital of French Guiana
- active weapon
- capsaicin tricks nerves into feeling burning heat
- folk medicine
- long used to stop bleeding and boost circulation
- birds immune
- they feel no burn, so they spread seeds
cayenne pepper — spicy chili pepper from cayenne, french guiana, rated 30,000-50,000 scoville heat units
porsche cayenne — luxury suv first produced in 2002, named after the city and pepper
cayenne french guiana — capital city of french guiana, located on the atlantic coast of south america