Re: [CH] Learning the Heat (was Kudos)
Doug Irvine (dougandmarie@shaw.ca)
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:23:26 -0700
Alex Silbajoris wrote:
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>> From: dougandmarie@shaw.ca
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>> That was away back in 1945-46, when I was 20, and he was 24, just back from Guam!
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> That makes me wonder, how many veterans came home from WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam, with a new-found taste for hot peppers they discovered in Asia?
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In my cousin's case, he was brought up in LA County from the time he was
about 4 years of age. His friends were Mexican as well as American, and
so he was introduced to Mex cooking early on, and developed his taste
for peppers quite young. Although he was born in Canada, his life has
always been spent in the USA and in 1941 he was 19 and went right into
the US armed forces. We used to stand on the Pacific Ocean shore, and he
would point west, and tell me how far away the Pacific theatre of war
had been. His love of hot and spicy was well established by the time he
was about 12! He and his parents came up to Toronto to visit when I was
5 and he was 9, and between the 2 of us, got into all sorts of trouble,
even burning down a bus stop! For which we both got whipped! Although he
got the worst of it, those 4 years my senior did him in! That was 1931,
and we did not see each other again until 1945. We are still friends,
and I call him in California a few times a year.
Cheers, Doug in BC