![]() ![]() ![]() chinense.) The Aleppo ones are distinguished for their flavor, a combination of forward sweetness, a warm, mouth-flooding capsicum taste, a lightly tart hint of fermentation, and a somewhat delayed heat that is never overpowering. frutescens, and Habaneros or Scotch bonnets, C. Like most peppers around the world, whether hot and pungent or mild and sweet, Aleppo peppers are part of the great species of Capsicum annuum, comprising almost all the domesticated Capsicums of any importance. Flayflee halabiye they’re called in Aleppo, which means simply “Aleppo peppers,” using Halab, the Arabic name for Aleppo. ![]() I first went back in the early 1970s in search of antiquities, but the second time, in the year 2000, I was on a quest for food, specifically for Aleppo pepper, an ingredient critical to regional flavors that has also become popular in the United States with chefs and home cooks alike. That may be a stretch - Damascus claims it too - but it’s darned close. Admirers used to say Aleppo was the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. I’ve been to Aleppo twice and I realize now, sadly, that I will probably never again visit what was one of the most ancient and alluring cities in the entire Middle East. ![]()
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