It sometimes seems like we quote an awful lot of articles about the Bhut Jolokia pepper, but it is the latest pepper fad to hit the Americas in decades. That, plus our own experience with growing it (or failure to do so…but we’ll save that for another post) and eating it carries a certain level of fascination. Here’s yet another article from the State Journal Register about this new “ghost pepper”:

Playing with fire

By TIM SULLIVAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published Wednesday, September 19, 2007

NEW DELHI — I know people who regularly eat bhut jolokias, the “ghost chile” now rated as the world’s hottest pepper.

They’re nice people. I like them. They don’t seem crazy.

Appearances are deceiving.

I ate an entire bhut jolokia the other night, sitting at my dining-room table with an open beer and — on the advice of the experienced — a bowl of yogurt and a few slices of bread at the ready.

I had the strange fear that nothing would happen, that I had traveled halfway across India in search of a chile that would be no hotter than an apple. I thought I was prepared.

What followed was a gastronomic mugging.

I know, I know. You probably think I’m exaggerating, or maybe just inexperienced in the ways of chiles.

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