"Moors and Christians." Paella with black and white beans from eastern Spain and in Cuba, a dish by the same name of black beans and rice and typically garnished with a segment of lime and cream.
Thin-lipped grey mullet (US: striped mullet). It has a pointed snout giving it the appearance of thin lips, hence its name. It has a golden sheen.
A dish from La Mancha of game, usually hare, boiled and minced (US: ground) with other meats especially liver, but often with ham and pork loin, possibly chicken spiced with cumin, caraway, cloves or paprika and formed into a loaf. It is sometimes served cold as a terrine.
A name for the Tepin chilli. It is thought that Tepin, also called Chiltepin, is the original wild chilli - the plant from which all others have evolved. It is a tiny round berry slightly larger than a peppercorn. It is very decorative and bright scarlet in colour and, despite its high heat level, it is attractive to wild birds, who helped to distribute it across the prehistoric Americas. Birds do not have the same sensitivity to capsaicin as mammals as capsaicin acts on a specific nerve receptor in mammals and avian nervous systems are rather different. Chilli peppers are in fact a favorite food of many birds living in the chilli peppers' natural range. The flesh of the peppers provides the birds with nutritious meal rich in vitamin C. In return, the seeds of the peppers are distributed by the birds, as they drop the seeds while eating the pods or the seeds pass through the digestive tract unharmed. This relationship is theorized to have promoted the evolution of the protective capsaicin. It is interesting to note that the chemical used to give an artificial grape flavoring to food items such as grape soda does have a similar effect on birds as capsaicin has on humans. Heat level = 8.
