Bhwt Jolokiya as some people call it, is called
Bih jolkiya ( literally Poison Pepper) in many
parts of Upper Assam, including my ancestral
Namti area. I have grown it in my garden here in
St. Louis, just for the heck of it. We never
could eat a single one of them, because they are
so ungodly hot.Even the smell is menacing. They
however, look very pretty in autumn when the
gnarled and bright red fruits hang from the plant
against the dark green leaves. I dried a whole
bunch of it with the aim of making squirrel
repellant spray . But it has not yet been done or
tested for efficacy.
Last month, when I was at Namti, a local youth ,
who is also a micro-tea-planter, wanted to take
me to show his "bhwt-jolkiya" farm. I wanted to
but lack of time forced me to cancel it. He says
they sell like, um, hot-cakes, in Nagaland.
At 5:27 AM -0800 2/19/07, Dilip/Dil Deka wrote:
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It depends on where you grow it. If it is in
Guwahati, it is Bhot Jalakia. In Jorhat it would
be Bhut Jalakia. The end result is the same, you
burn at both ends. :-)
Dilip
Santonu Goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<<The name Bhut Jolokia translates as ghost
chile, Bosland said, were not sure why they
call it that, but I think its because the chile
is so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat
it!>>
I think the name should be "BHOT Jalakia" not
"BHUT Jalakia" as mentioned in the article and
everywhere else. As far as I know it is the
"bhot" people who used to bring it to the
brahmaputra valley to sell in the market etc and
that is why it is "bhot jalakia", not "bhut, the
ghost" as described by the professor. Anyone
knows about this?
umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Great work!! Perhaps
Haberno pepper mentioned it the article seemed
like fire to my Hyderabadi IT techie roommate
Kiran Gudiboina -who likes hot stuff-I put one
in a dish for 5 people-. Bhot will be too much.
Umesh
Santonu Goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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