Re: [CH] A Burning Ring of Fire
Tina Brooks (shoestring_louise@yahoo.com)
Thu, 1 Mar 2007 07:50:43 -0800 (PST)
We have been involved with the Elephant pepper project
for three years, It's a small wonder to me that anyone
claims to be making sauce, (which has been notoriously
unavailable), we haven't seen any fruit from the
project yet ourselves.
T
--- Linda Hutchinson <lipant@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> "Claiming that your hot sauce can stop an elephant
> sounds like an idle
> boast, but zoologist Loki Osborn has proof. In
> 1995, he devised a plan to
> protect Zimbabwean villagers' from crop-raiding
> pachyderms with a perimeter
> of string coated with hot chile paste. It did the
> trick, irritating the
> elephant's ultra sensitive trunks, and local farmers
> have since turned the
> chilies into a cash crop. They provide the serious
> heat in Osborn's Elephant
> Pepper Development Trust's tangy hot sauces.
> (elephantpepper.com)
>
> -- Gourmet Magazine, March 2007.
>
> Linda ... www.CanadianSpiceMarket.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me
> - I want people
> to know WHY I look this way: I've traveled a long
> way and some of the
> roads weren't paved.
>
>
>
>
>
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Tina Brooks
VP Marketing, Peppermaster Hot Sauces
www.peppermaster.com
Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc.
Phone: (514) 393-3430
26 St. Jean Baptiste, East
Rigaud, Quebec, Canada
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