I like paprika. I like it on french fries and eggplant, or included in the ritual pre-grill rubdown raw meat demands. Paprika is just a bright red powder ground of dried sweet peppers, and it's responsible for the "natural color" listing on the back of any bright red, orange or yellow pre-packaged food product. In point of fact, the smoky spiciness of paprika is only released under heat; if you don't add paprika to a dish before cooking, sprinkling it on after the fact adds little beyond a ruddy red hue.

Also, apparently it's the title of a Japanese work of fiction involving recursive dreams that was published in 1993 and adapted into a film in 2006. Looks a bit like Inception, kinda?

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