According to a Washington UPI report, Smithsonian Archaeologist, Linda Perry, who’s also a chili pepper specialist, found evidence to suggest that 1400 years ago, Native Oaxacan farmers were eating foods like corn, beans, squash, chilis, agave, tropical fruits and avocados, even chopping them “…to create a primitive form of salsa.” Perry also said that the chili pepper was first domesticated 6000 years ago and that “Archaeologists have always felt chili peppers were very important…”

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