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What’s Really Going On With Paprika
So here’s the actual situation, now that I’ve pulled myself out of the fog of culinary ignorance. There is no paprika tree. Never was. Paprika is literally just ground-up red peppers. Specifically sweet or mild red capsicum—the ones that go full red when they ripen. That’s it. That’s the whole magic trick.
And I know what you’re thinking—“Okay but what kind of pepper?” Like, it’s not just random bell peppers from the grocery store, right? Sort of. In some places,
