Chili peppers have ancient history
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Who says food fads can't last? Thousands of years before the advent of Tex-Mex, ancient Americans were spicing up stew with red hot chili peppers.
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Tapas _ the Spanish finger-food that is delighting palates around the world _ have a complex new champion: a delicacy of roast peppers, pickled eggplant, horse mackerel and dried leeks.Comment
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LOS ANGELES  - "I had some of the best   times of my life in this building," rubber-spined bassist Flea   said of the crusty but trusty Forum. And judging from the wild   response to Red Hot Chili Peppers' homecoming show Thursday,   many in the sold-out house would count this among theirs.
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Agriculture was taking root in South America almost as early as the first farmers were breaking ground in the Middle East, new research indicates. Evidence that squash was being grown nearly 10,000 years ago, in what is now Peru, is reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
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A cosmetic face cream used by fashionable women in ancient Roman times has been analysed by scientists at Bristol University, UK, and now reproduced.
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By Steve Connor  Chilli peppers have been deemed the oldest-known kitchen condiment after scientists found evidence that people were cooking with them more than 6,000 years ago.
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A new DNA analysis indicates that the parasites  accompanied their human hosts in the original peopling of the Americas, probably as early as 15,000 years ago.
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Scientists exploring the western slopes of the Andes in northern Peru have found seeds of domesticated squash from almost 10,000 years ago.
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The oldest solar observatory in the Americas has been discovered pointing to the existence of ancient Sun cults, scientists report.
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Legend has it that the ancient  Romans refreshed themselves with the bubbly water that springs  out of an extinct volcano near Naples, a reference to which can  be found even in philosopher Pliny the Elder&#39;s works.
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Archaeologists digging in western Japan have excavated what they believe to be the oldest remains of a melon ever found, an official said Friday.
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The Chinese were consuming fermented beverages &#151; possibly wine &#151; as long as 9,000 years ago, according to scientists who used modern techniques to peer back through the mists of time.
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A study of an ancient human pest -- head lice -- suggests that the ancestors of today's American Indians may have met and fought with pre-humans long extinct elsewhere, scientists said on Tuesday.
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A feud flares over an ancient skull that may or may not have belonged to a new species of human
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A study of an ancient human pest -- head lice -- suggests that the ancestors of today&#39;s American Indians may have met and fought with
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Still listening to this classic Dead song.  And writing about it on Twitter... It's an MP3 that I ripped from the Mars Hotel album. Which I bought on CD many years ago. I've listened to this track about 1000 times. When I play it it puts a smile on my face. Because Cucamonga is a place with no pride, imho.  It's a joke, kind of like Truckin makes fun of New Orleans, a town that done the Dead wrong, once, a long time ago. Now if it were on vinyl I would have wore it out a long time ago. I'm sure there was a copy of the song on the disk Apple stole from me. There you have it RIAA. You can go after Apple. I'll support you because they stole from both of us. They have no right to listen to PofC. I imagine Steve Jobs and Phil Shindler sitting around smokin a doobie listening to Phil Lesh sing, thinking "Dave has good taste in music." BTW, Cucamonga is a suburb in southern CA. Near Ontario. Probably very non-descript. Might have been interesting 70 years ago. And that's your bedtime story for Saturday, boys and girls. Have a nice day, don't hit your brother (or sister) and be nice to the sitter!