[CH] Re: Is this mainly a horticulture discussion list?

GarryMass@aol.com
Thu, 7 Dec 2000 23:14:06 EST 

In a message dated 12/04/00 1:15:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
gwiv@enteract.com writes:

<< Is this mainly a horticulture discussion list focusing
 on the care and feeding of chilies?  >>

Well, there were some suggestions that the recipe and the (horticulture) 
gardening people should both get off the list.  That would leave the louts 
who chugalug habanero extract with their TV dinners to macho it up alone, I 
guess.
Longer term listers generally ignore such comments from the few unwashed.
For my own part, I grow chiles with success because of the list.  I cook with 
chiles, because of the list.  I have tried almost every recipe that Doug 
(Doogliss in BC), Risa, Shantihh, and the non-grower Easterners have posted 
(Chet, Mark, others, even Scott in KC).  I have enjoyed every single one of 
them, I even made chipotle cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving (though the 
recipe is probably intended for T-dinner for 40 football players) and it was 
a sensation.
I buy chile plants and seeds from people on the list almost exclusively, and 
have been graced by free seeds from listers who have introduced me to some 
pretty large and pretty smoldering Jalapenos.
I unabashedly endorse purchases, based on my most favorable experience, from 
Dave at Tough-Love, Susan Byers the Chilewoman, Jim Campbell's Mild to Wild, 
and even Janis D' one and Oni (does anyone think WE'RE affiliated?, nuts to 
you if you do).  
So, to me at least, it's not a horticulture list but we are growers, it's not 
a recipe list but we are chile cooks (some are chefs, even), and when the 
growing and cooking is done, we are chile eaters.
Gareth the ChileKnight
PS, if you're staying on the list you have to come to Open Fields in Indiana 
to pick the last of Jim Campbell's crop in the fall.  He'll invite you to 
pick and take all you can carry for free.  Don't tell him, but after we pick 
all we can take home, we're going to keep picking till he has most of the end 
of his crop in.  He thinks that we should take his chiles for free, without 
cost or obligation; he just really doesn't understand the concept of 
overpicking.  How's that for horticulture?  Now, post a recipe.