Piri-Piri Prawns

When the first Portuguese explorers landed in South America in the sixteenth century, they found a tiny, blazing red chile pepper known locally as piri-piri (sometimes called pili-pili). Such was its appeal that, within a few decades (an eyeblink in an age when an around-the-world sea voyage lasted several years), the piri-piri was being cultivated and cooked in Portuguese colonies that stretched literally around the planet, from Brazil to Mozambique; South Africa to In