Chili peppers are eaten by a quarter of the earth’s population every day, in countries all over the globe. They belong to the Capsicum family, and were unknown to most people until Christopher Columbus made his way to the New World in 1492. A 2016 phylogenetic study of 24 Capsicum strains found that they are native to an area along the Andes of western to north-western South America. That’s where the “Mother of all Chili”, the Aji Charapita Pepper comes from. Use of chilies i