the.com/sweet paprika
All the red drama of a chili, none of the burn — pepper's gentle showoff.
means A mild, ground red spice made from dried sweet peppers, prized more for its deep color and warm, fruity flavor than for any heat.
from The word 'paprika' rode into English through Hungarian, which borrowed it from a South Slavic word (compare Serbo-Croatian 'paprika'), itself a diminutive built on 'papar,' meaning pepper — a line that traces back through Latin 'piper' to Greek 'peperi' and ultimately to Sanskrit 'pippali,' the long pepper of India. The peppers themselves, of course, came from the Americas after Columbus, but the old Indo-European pepper-word was waiting to name them. 'Sweet' simply distinguishes the gentle varieties from the hot.
- vitamin c
- Discovered in paprika peppers, winning a Nobel Prize
- hungary's pride
- National spice with its own museum in Kalocsa
- color over heat
- Bred to dazzle dishes, not scorch tongues
- light hater
- Loses color and punch fast under sunlight
szeged paprika — hungarian protected designation of origin paprika from szeged, hungary's historic spice capital since the 1800s