What Gives a Chili Pepper its Heat? 🥵🌶️ | Beyond the Menu

What's in a name? We call two different spices "pepper" because they make our mouths burn, but that's where the similarities end. Check out this video to learn the chemistry behind how they deliver heat, and why they ended up with the same name.
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The story of the food on your plate is more than just the recipe. Each ingredient and every cooking technique goes back hundreds if not thousands of years, traversing the globe on a wildly delicious cross-cultural adventure. In KQED’s new digital food series Beyond The Menu, host Cecilia Phillips interviews chefs, authors, and other experts to dig up surprising facts on the cultural pathways of some of our most-loved dishes. It’s a history show, it’s a mystery series, it’s a celebration of multicultural cuisine, sometimes it’s even a science program, all set against the backdrop of mouth-watering food cinematography.
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