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    The ‘Fish’ Pepper A Vivid History

    Jun 09, 2017 4 minutes
    By William Woys Weaver

    THE STORY OF THE ‘Fish’ pepper (Capsicum annuum) is about bee stings, black history, and a delicious, spicy, white sauce. All the ‘Fish’ peppers now sold by seed companies trace back to seed I shared many years ago through Seed Savers Exchange ( www.SeedSavers.org). This unique variegated-leaf pepper spread from my grandfather’s little seed jar to the world of pepper aficionados and, because of its ornamental character, to landscape gardeners. TTa

    My grandfather acquired the seed in the 1940s from Horace Pippin, an African-American painter in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Pippin suffered from a war injury he

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