{"id":2830,"date":"2026-02-18T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:54:08","slug":"spice-of-the-month-cayenne-pepper","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"Spice of the Month: Cayenne Pepper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although it\u00a0has little aroma,\u00a0<strong>cayenne pepper\u00a0<\/strong>has a strong, spicy hot taste. This spicy taste is the result of capsaicin, a substance found in abundance in chili peppers. The hotter the pepper, the more capsaicin it contains. Add some heat to your dishes with\u00a0<strong>cayenne pepper<\/strong>. Pick up your spice kit today at the circulation desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closeup-shot-chile-pepper-wooden-spoon-white-background2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closeup-shot-chile-pepper-wooden-spoon-white-background2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closeup-shot-chile-pepper-wooden-spoon-white-background2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closeup-shot-chile-pepper-wooden-spoon-white-background2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closeup-shot-chile-pepper-wooden-spoon-white-background2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closeup-shot-chile-pepper-wooden-spoon-white-background2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/closeup-shot-chile-pepper-wooden-spoon-white-background2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it\u00a0has little aroma,\u00a0cayenne pepper\u00a0has a strong, spicy hot taste. This spicy taste is the result of capsaicin, a substance found in abundance in chili peppers. The hotter the pepper, the more capsaicin it contains. Add some heat to your dishes with\u00a0cayenne pepper. Pick up your spice kit today at the circulation desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[450,449,198,373],"class_list":{"0":"post-2830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-archive","4":"format-standard","6":"category-adult-programming","7":"tag-capsaicin","8":"tag-cayenne-pepper","9":"tag-february","10":"tag-spice-of-the-month","11":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bertoletmemoriallibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}