For most of my life if there was a choice between hot, medium and mild for how spicy a dish was, I always picked mild, no question.
But about 12 years ago I started to slowly change my mind and my palate when it came to warming up to cayenne peppers.
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The use of cayenne pepper to spice up a dish or boost circulation has a long history in many cultures around the world. There is sometimes confusion from the fact that a cayenne pepper is always a chili pepper, but a hot chili is not always a cayenne. So what is it?
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