Re: [CH] An Eat the Heat Reunion at Bowers This Year

Karen Elizabeth Stober (kstober@skyweb.net)
Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:55:04 -0400 

Hi

Dad and I shall be there Saturday early.  We have to leave right after the 
chile eating contest, as Dad has an Elks initiation ceremony and dinner at 
6:30PM that night.

Chip at Red Lion said it's OK for me to leave my promo chile pepper art 
cards on his table and I need to be around in case there are questions.  I 
don't know how much space I will have, so, I am bringing a tray table or 
two so I can show my portfolio with more chile pepper art.  If there is 
space for a tray table.  I also have a children's book I wrote about 
peppers, "Scoville The Chile Pepper", that I created just as a portfolio 
piece.  I will have a color copy of the book with me.  Hopefully - Tabasco, 
who always have a table at the Festival, - or someone else will be 
interested in publishing it after they see it at the Festival.  I've gotten 
really good feedback on it from authors, teachers, illustrators and one 
publisher who doesn't publish non-fiction.  Color copies of the book are 
$150 each to make so I wont be selling any.  I have one page as a sample to 
hand to publishers and lots of promo postcards to hand out.

I am looking for opportunities for my pepper art, such as bottle labels, 
cards (I would design them), and portraits with peppers.  I called Chile 
Pepper Magazine, Chilis Restaurant and Fiery Foods.  Maybe something will 
come of it.

Here at home, peppers are terrible.  Most of my seeds never sprouted.  I 
got about two dozen seedlings and maybe seven survived and thrived.  None 
of my Habaneros, Rocottos, Bishops Crowns, Thais, Lemon Drops, Datils, etc. 
survived.  I have Tabascos, Peters, Pasilla, Jalapeno, Fatallis, Ajis(?), 
Rocotillo, and something that might be a Bishop's Crown but I am not quite 
sure yet.  Most are not even starting to ripen yet.

Today a deer broke the pool gate and munched all my hosta and turtleheads 
to death.  So I poured dried blood on the chiles and what was left of the 
plants.  The does ate my tomatoes, too.  The only plants that thrived are 
the cranberries.

Cheers

Karen