Food & Drink
LAST GOOD MEAL
Playwright NICOLA McCARTNEY’s latest work for 7:84 Theatre Company, Cave Dwellers, has been touring Scotland. Below. the dramatist tipped by The Guardian as ‘one the best of the new and growing crop of Scottish playwrights’ (although she’s from Ireland) rates a few of her favourite local eateries.
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What place might you go if someone else was to pay?
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And, finally, where would you be for your final supper?
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHILLIES
Originated About 1.0.000 years ago in the Amazon region Of SOuth America. Everyone's favourite explorer, Christopher Columbus. is credited with introducing them tO Europe in 1492.
The facts They're fruits. not vegetables and grow on shrubs like tomatoes. It's estimated that there are around 26 species and 400 different varieties grown worldwnde. Capsaicinoids are the chemical compounds them make them hot. When you bite intO them your body is flooded with endOrphins tO help you deal with the pain (thank God). Some history In 1912. Dr Wilbur Scoville devised the Scoville Test tO determine the heat Of peppers. This involved a group Of people sitting around biting intO them and giving their verdicts. This has now been
" M ‘ 1‘ ‘ I refined intO a more scientific method known as liquid chromatography. but RED EWING ROOM the heat is still measured in Scoville units. .
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