Darling, I am home!

  Darling, I am home! A biography: Chilli’s quest to India Today, Chilli and India are like the moonwalk and Michael Jackson, a synonym for one another; but she wasn’t always the nAAGin of the jungle. A food-related fact that surprises Indians more than Samosas (yes, we did not invent it) is that chilli isn’t native to India. So, how did she become the name on everybody’s lips? Chilli was born and brought up in Latin America. One day, while her siblings Paprika and Cayenne prepared dinner, chilli could not help but dream of getting out of America, much like our small town folks fantasizing about Bombay. She wanted to travel and spice up her life.   Thus, began Chilli’s quest for a pepper life. She got together with her buddy Vasco (Da Gama) and sailed to India, the land of spices. She travelled throughout India and within years, India was cultivating chilli in heaps and bounds so much so that we began exporting around the world. Fun fact, when Christopher Columbus set sai...