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When Did Kimchi Become Spicy? The Chili Arrived Late
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When Did Kimchi Become Spicy? The Chili Arrived Late

Korea first wrote about the chili in 1614 and called it poisonous. Chili kimchi took another century and a half to fill the cookbooks, and red napa-cabbage kimchi is younger still.

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