Boil it up on the fire, throw in a few chillies and you're good to go.
There was sweetness from the sauces, sour from the lime, saltiness from the fish sauce and spiciness from the chillies.
They do Cantonese with a twist, smothering its subtle flavours under a blanket of garlic cloves and chillies.
Before Columbus arrived, Michael tells me, people here ate chillies, but not chilli.
NAFTA, the wheat-growers of Sonora were switching to nuts, peaches and chillies-not-for-men because wheat wasn't worth bothering with any more.
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Among the 25 or so items that go into Ruq's dish are local chillies, garlic, mustard greens, bean sprouts and limes.
Ella Spice Garden started by giving tours of their family-run spice garden, which contains everything from chillies to cinnamon, pepper to pandan.
But corn farmers, or indeed any others who want to turn to growing nuts, peaches or chillies for wimps instead, are in trouble.
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Spices are a staple of Sri Lankan food, from the cinnamon that drew the colonising Portuguese to the chillies that they left behind.
Below the vast grain silos, which tower over the prairie like cathedrals, is a little stand selling chillies to Muleshoe's newly arrived Latino labourers.
Tortured with sticks and stabbed with bayonettes, while hung up by her ankles from the ceilings, they burnt chillies underneath her so the smoke would burn her eyes.
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After many 75-hour weeks, he now owns a supermarket in Raleigh, where a mostly-immigrant clientele pays cash for Latin pop music, live tilapia and a wide variety of chillies.
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One burnt corpse was found half buried in a sewer, next to the remains of a grocery shop - its torso covered by piles of burnt chillies and other spices.
He ordered in some extra spicy naga chillies, 100 times stronger than a jalapeno, for one insatiable customer who demanded something hotter than her usual dish made from 30 fresh green chillies.
Try both the fried avocado tacos with vegetarian, refried beans and the Dirty Sanchez (name aside, it is an appetizing combination of scrambled eggs, chillies, guacamole and escabeche carrots) and the Green Chile Queso, which comes topped with guacamole and cilantro.
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