The first time I saw a green pepper (or any colour pepper for that matter) there were two of them; one had been cut in half and they were the subject of a Still Life lesson for my O level Art.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I wish I could remember stuff like this. There was a time when I didn't know what peppers were, now I use them all the time. But when did the change occur? sometime in the last 50.
A friend and I shared a bedsit in Notting Hill in 1966 (we were both about 18 and only lasted a few weeks before scurrying home again). We bought and cooked a green pepper and were so surprised it was actually OK tasting and not at all hot as we thought it might be. No idea when I first cooked an actual chilli!
I think I first tried / cooked peppers in the early 80's. By then I was interested in food and wanting to cook recipes that would never have entered my mother's repertoire. The recipe I was following was an American one for something along the lines of chicken a la king and required a red pepper. Except it was called a pimento and I could only find canned ones - and that took a great deal of finding in the backwaters of Norfolk!
Speaking of cans... We never had fresh fruit juice as such when I was a child. At Christmas we had tinned grapefruit juice (a very large family sized tin) and very occasionally bought a bottle of pasteurised orange juice from the milkman. Definitely a treat for high days and holidays.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
We never got fresh peas from our garden .oh yes we planted them all right but very seldom got any for a meal . My sister used to go down the vegetable patch and eat them from the pods as soon as they were ready . Mum used to complain bitterly every year that non ever came good ,till Annie owned up . Boy did mum go to town on her !
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Speaking of cans... We never had fresh fruit juice as such when I was a child. At Christmas we had tinned grapefruit juice (a very large family sized tin) and very occasionally bought a bottle of pasteurised orange juice from the milkman. Definitely a treat for high days and holidays.