Do you like to eat spicy food? Read it

Do you like to eat spicy food? Well, that’s mean you have to know what’s going on at 22 January. 22 January is the born day of Wilburn Lincoln Scoville, an American pharmacist. Scoville is known because the invention of Scoville Scale that is used to measure spicy level of chili. The spicy level of chili is measured from the number of 0 until 2.200.000 for the spiciest chili.

A spicy taste from chili is usually found on some Indonesian specialty culinary. For example, Sayur Lombok from Javanese, lalap and sambel ulek from sundanese, rendang from sumateranese and many more. Although there are many culinary using chili as a cooking main material, actually chili is not original plant from Indonesia. Chili come from American continent tropical and sub tropical region, for instance Colombia, South America, and continue spread to Latin America.

Spain and Portuguese trader spread chili all over the world including Asian countries, one of them is Indonesia. After chili come to Indonesia, the people of Indonesia has been usual even dependant with the spicy taste from chili. There are many species of chili that live in the origin region, but there are only some species known in Indonesia. Indonesian people know some of chili species, big chili, curly chili, cayenne and paprika.

Chili which come from another side of the earth has been familiar among Indonesian lips. However, the taste which burn the lips is not only owned by the plant from capsicum genus but also owned by Indonesian spices such as capulaga, ginger, pepper and Javanese chili. Although it is called Javanese chili, it is not from capsicum genus but from Piper genus which related to Pepper.