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By Alex Salkever | Photos by Adam Lubroth
Bite
by
Bite
Call it Tapas Central. Call it Delicious.
U
nos pican y otros no. This is what the waiter told me
as he delivered a bowl of pimientos de padrón, a
classic Spanish dish of green peppers that look similar to serranos. Padrón peppers are generally coated
with olive oil, grilled, and dusted with sea salt. Out
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of every ten padrón peppers, perhaps one or two will
set your mouth on fire. That explains my waiter’s
idiomatic warning: Some bite and others don’t.
The first one had no bite but was clean and
snappy, with an earthy, salty flavor that begged for
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