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a chili so chill it became the polite face of heat, training wheels with attitude
means A medium-sized green (sometimes ripened red) chili pepper of moderate heat, widely used in Mexican and Tex-Mex cooking.
from Named for Xalapa (also spelled Jalapa), the capital city of Veracruz, Mexico, where the peppers were traditionally cultivated — so 'jalapeño' literally means 'from Xalapa.' The city name itself comes from Nahuatl, the Aztec language, likely combining 'xalli' (sand) and 'apan' (water/river place), roughly 'place by the sandy water.' The tilde over the ñ marks that soft 'ny' sound Spanish carried in from Latin.
- name origin
- Named for Xalapa, Mexico's pepper-growing capital
- heat range
- 2,500 to 8,000 Scoville units, modest by chili standards
- smoked alias
- Dried and smoked, it becomes the chipotle
- space traveler
- First pepper grown in orbit, 1982
- stress sweat
- More water stress means hotter, scar-streaked pods
espelette pepper — french protected designation of origin pepper from pays basque, milder than jalapeño at 1,000-4,000 scoville units
xalapa — mexican city in veracruz where jalapeños originated, the name corrupted into 'jalapeño'