Whenever I travel, I am always on a mission to find spicy foods and peppers. I recently took a trip to the Mediterranean and visited Italy and Greece. While there, I wasn’t able to find any real spicy dishes, but I was able to find some peppers with a little heat and learn how to ask for spicy peppers in the local language. I normally learn how to say spicy pepper right after I learn bathroom!
This is a beautiful display of hot pepper bouquets in Venice. Peperoncino piccante is how you say spicy pepper in Italian. Most restaurants did not even have crushed red pepper flakes, but some restaurants had peppers to add. Below are pictures of the peppers that I was given to spice up my pasta.
These peppers were good!
In Greece, a hot pepperis called kafto peperi
In Greece, we seemed to get the same red peppers, only roasted. These were the only peppers we found in the Mediterranean until we bumped into a unique plant on someones porch on a Greek Island. I will tell you more about that in my next post.
Hi Mike,
I really liked this Post and also your entire Blog. You try to expand your knowledge and experience with peppers also beyond the well known (like Jalapenos and Ghost Peppers). It is a pity that you didn’t also visit Turkey during your travels, because you can definitely find some nice and spicy flavors here.
In fact, we are going to make a video on the famous hot Isot peppers of Urfa in southeast Turkey and I was wondering if you would like to feature it on your blog.
Keep up the nice work.
best,
March 29th, 2012 at 4:20 amandy
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