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In this comprehensive book, world chile experts Dave DeWitt and Paul W. Bosland have assembled all the information that anyone with an interest in chile peppers could ever hope to find. Detailed profiles of the 100 most popular chile varieties include information on how to grow chiles; how to diagnose and remedy problems, pests, and diseases; and post-harvest processing and preservation. The book culminates in 85 mouth-watering recipes that make brilliant use of both the characteristic heat of chile peppers and of their more subtle flavor qualities.
Want to know what the hottest chile pepper in the world is? You'll find it in the fascinating story of 'Bhut Jolokia', acknowledged by Guinness World Records as the fieriest chile on earth. Confused about the identity of those chile peppers you bought? The authors' clear photographs and precise descriptions will clear up the mystery.
The Complete Chile Pepper Book is the only guide to chiles you'll ever need. It's a scorcher.
Gizmonic
Posted March 15, 2010
My wife got me this book as a gift. She did not go wrong. I am a chili-head, and I know (or at least thought I knew) a lot about chili peppers. I apparently didn't know the half of it. This book is amazingly full of details and information. Besides just a list of the general varieties and habitats, it gives detailed instructions for cultivating, including spotting and treating diseases that could hurt your plant. One could nearly become a full fledged pepper farmer on this book alone. It also lists a few recipes and even canning instructions. If you are someone who loves chili peppers, this book is an absolute must have. Even if you never own a chili farm, and don't even have a plant in a back yard garden, this book is still chock full of interesting and useful information. You can't go wrong with this book, either for yourself or as a gift for any chili-loving loved one.
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Posted May 19, 2010
This book is great for high quality information about growing your own peppers, and how to use your peppers once they are ripe. I really suggest buying this book if you want to learn to grow peppers.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.This is the most comprehensive chile pepper book I've seen. It caught my favor right away because it had a picture and description of the malagueta pepper, a small chile pepper that grows wild in Brazil and a species which a friend of ours gathered and brought to us as a present from his country. It was fun to find this chile pepper in the pages of my book!
Since I've always loved to grow a variety of hot peppers in my garden, I truly love the comprehensive advice in the gardening section. I can't guarantee I'll use all the advice, but I'll sure check back to see what I've been doing wrong with my pepper plants in the past. There is a section that has diseases and pests, which I hope only to see in the book and never on my plants.
The pictures are fabulous. One section of the book names the top 100 chile peppers for the garden. It's very easy to identify the different species of chile peppers from those large, clear, and colorful photographs.
For any food connoisseur, you'll be delighted to know that there are about 100 pages of mouth-watering recipes, each with a huge photograph to show you what it is you'll be making. The flavor, I'm afraid, you'll have to taste yourself.
At the back of the book is an extensive bibliography, glossary and list of resources. I can't imagine any chile pepper lover who would not be able to find the answer to his question about this spicy vegetable in this book or be directed from it to the appropriate resource.
There are only two quite minor things I did not like about this book. One was that the type seemed a bit small. That may be my aging eyes, though. The other thing was that I received my copy of this book in November - just as the last of my chile pepper plants died off from the cold. Now I'll have to wait until the spring to do more chile pepper gardening as I don't have anywhere to grow these plants inside my house.
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Overview
In this comprehensive book, world chile experts Dave DeWitt and Paul W. Bosland have assembled all the information that anyone with an interest in chile peppers could ever hope to find. Detailed profiles of the 100 most popular chile varieties include information ...