Re: [CH] Smithsonian article on chiles
Dave Drum (dirty_dave@chillicooks.org)
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:13:13 -0500
Jonathan Smillie wrote:
> Could our favorite alkaloid be a naturally-selected defense mechanism to
> preserve the fruit by making them unpalatable to natural enemies? And if
> so, what does that say about us?
Why, that we are not the natural enemies of the chile plants ... since
we enjoy and find quite palatable the taste and zing of their method
of off-putting their enemies. Bv)=
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