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Espelette pepper festival

The Basque village's late October fete, with strings of red peppers on house walls and the AOP chilli on every plate.

Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Spices for Espelette pepper festival

Piment d'Espelette arrived in the Basque Country from the Americas in the 16th century and was used as a substitute for black pepper. Today the red pods are hung on the whitewashed houses to dry in autumn sun, then ground into a mild, fruity powder with a protected designation of origin. The festival has a procession, pepper contests and a market, and the powder is used on piperade, chorizo, ham and chocolate.

The spices

Chili pepperIntroduced to Europe from the Americas.

Also part of it, and being written: Piment d'Espelette (The mild Basque chilli.).

About this page

Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Espelette pepper" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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