=Mark wrote: >Peppers: A Story of Hot Pursuits >by Amal Naj > >Paperback: 245 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 8.00 x 0.75 x 5.25 >Publisher: Vintage Books USA; Reprint edition (August 1, 1993) >ASIN: 0679744274 > >http://tinyurl.com/28qf4 > >-- >=Mark > >http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens > > Well, I can certainly second that suggestion of =Mark's as I have that book, and have read it twice. Here is a guy, brought up in India, with very little knowledge of chile peppers, who being "marooned in Belfast, northern Ireland" with VERY bland food, cried for help from a friend in London, who sent him a care pkg of chile peppers....poor guy had met his Waterloo, for that started him on a quest, which culminated in his writing a very interesting book, on the history of the chile pepper. I bought this book from Rob Lusk, who owns PepperFool: http://www.PepperFool.com where a bunch of my recipes are archived, along with Risa Gs' and a lot of others. Rob has a lot of other books available, as well as other stuff you might find interesting. I can attest to the bland food of Belfast, for that is where my parents originated from, and it was bland food for me from day 1, until I hit southern California, in 1946, when I was 20! Got hooked, never looked back! Cheers, Doug on Vancouver Island BC