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For most of India's history there was no chilli. Then a plant arrived from Brazil and conquered the whole subcontinent in a century.
Ask anyone what makes Indian food Indian and chilli will come up fast. The heat is the first thing people name.
Yet for most of India's history there was no chilli here at all. Not one plant. The food was hot, but it was hot in a different way.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.