The Hot Book of Chillies

The Hot Book of Chillies: Revised Edition is a fact filled expose of one of the world's best-loved plants: the capsicum. It offers a gallery of the popular varieties, from the tiny piquin and gigantic NuMex Big Jim to the mild jalapeno and ferociously hot habanero. Find out more about the history and biology of the plant: its nutritional and medicinal properties, how to grow them and how to prepare them, together with a range of eye-watering menus. This revised edition features new photographs, updated text and comes in a paperback format with flaps.