I am paprika, made from pods of sweet, chili, paprika, and tomato peppers being ground up. I am a spicy red powder that is ground from peppers in the Capsicum family. The most commonly used peppers to make me are the dried tomato pepper and chili pepper. I am a spice that mostly consists of dried tomato and ground chili peppers that originated in central Mexico. I am a Hungarian spice with Mexican origin. My center of origin is central Mexico while, paprika peppers' center of origin is South America. I was domesticated approximately around the 16th Century in central Mexico. I was cultivated in other places starting around the 16th Century, starting with places like Spain and Europe, then leading to other countries like the Americas and now all over the world. According to Spiceography, my name “paprika” is Hungarian and its root is in the Greek “peperi” which means pepper.” I was moved from its center of origin by being theoretically, brought over to Spain by a European named “Christopher Columbus.” “The first pepper plants arrived in Hungary, Turkey in the 17th century. According to Some believe that ethnic groups who were fleeing north from the Turks (people from Turkey) introduced the peppers to the Balkans. I paprika became commonly used in Hungary by the end of the 18th century.”I, Paprika, was brought to Spain in the 16th Century. Christopher Columbus’s expansion of paprika peppers that are native to South America, along with many other resources to Spain and Europe is the result of the western hemisphere being introduced to me. In Hungry there are 6 classes of Paprika and there are three varieties of Hungarian Paprika, sweet, hot and smoked. According to Bespokespices, I’m so famous in Hungary, there is a Paprika Museum in the town of Kalocsa.
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