About Jalapeño
The jalapeño is the reference point of pepper conversation — most people's heat calibration, and the pepper whose drought-stressed crops doubled in SHU and made headlines. Fresh: poppers, pico de gallo, nacho crowns. Smoked and dried it becomes chipotle (mecco = the smoky classic; morita = shorter-smoked and fruitier). The veins carry the fire — seed-and-vein for a gentler cup.