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 One
of Bermuda's true indigenous flavours is Sherry Peppers.
No, they're not peppers that taste like sherry, but rather an
incendiary additive beloved by locals and visitors alike.
It was during the nineteenth century that imaginative British Royal Navy
sailors began fortifying casks of sherry with fiery hot peppers.
What they were concocting was an all purpose seasoning, a
"sauce" if you will, at first intended to mask the often less
than appetizing flavour of ship's rations.
Perhaps they would have been more accurate to have called the
potion peppered sherry, but we can't rewrite history. Stationed on
Bermuda at what was then one of the largest and most strategic Naval
Dockyards in the western hemisphere, the sailors shared their favourite
flavour with locals who took it up with feverish fervor.
Today, nearly every sideboard in Bermuda is graced by a cruet of
sherry peppers. It is the
Bermuda hot sauce and predates the hot sauce craze by nearly a century.
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