African Spices
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Allot of the peppers that spice up dishes here in the Americas came from Africa via the Atlantic Slave Trade. Spicy food is popular in hot regions of the world because they produce gastrointestinal sweating that cools the body. As early as 1742, Africans made Guinea Pepper a popular cooking ingredient in the kitchens of all sectors of colonial South Carolina where people used it to barbecue pork and seafood dishes.
