The hottest chili is ready for the world
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
CHANGPOOL, India -- The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled -- carefully, very carefully -- with whatever she's serving.
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