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urfa chili

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Cultural layer

Origin

Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey, in Kurdish-populated Anatolia; a chili sun-dried by day and wrapped to sweat by night until it turns dark purple-black and slightly oily

Routes

Grown and processed across the region and traded through Turkish markets; reached Western kitchens through restaurant cooking, usually under the Turkish place name alone

Context

Urfa is not dried so much as cured: a week of sun by day and wrapping by night, which stops the chili short of brittle and leaves it soft, dark and raisiny. That alternation is the whole product, and it is labor, repeated daily, by people in a Kurdish-majority region whose name rarely travels with the spice. The jar says Urfa. It could say more.

Route

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