[CH] chiles on two continents

margaret lauterbach (melauter@earthlink.net)
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:34:50 -0700

First of all, the Chile Pepper Institute has their 2010 catalog up, 
and as promised, they have Heritage Big Jims as well as NuMex 
Heritage 6-4s, grown out from seeds archived many years ago, so they 
have the flavor and pungency of the peppers old guys remember.  Tough 
Love probably has these seeds too.

Secondly, Grist of Jan. 15 carried a story by Gary Nabhan, 
reporting  drought in the Middle East is diminishing the supply of 
peppers such as Urfa and Maras peppers from Turkey, and the Halaby 
peppers in Syria.  The Chile Woman has Aleppo peppers now from 
Syria.  Does anyone know a seed supplier of Halaby, Maras or 
Urfa?  TIA, Margaret L