[CH] Perks of evolution
Dave Drum (dirty_dave@chillicooks.org)
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:58:26 -0500
Seems the mainstream media are beginning to wake up to chilies. It
doesn't get a lot more mainstream in the USA than the New York Times.
A Perk of Our Evolution: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies
By JAMES GORMAN
Late summer is chili harvest time, when the entire state of New Mexico
savors the perfume of roasting chilies, and across the country the
delightful, painful fruit of plants of the genus Capsicum are being
turned into salsa, hot sauce and grizzly bear repellent.
Festivals abound, often featuring chili pepper-eating contests. “It’s
fun,” as one chili pepper expert wrote, “sorta like a night out to
watch someone being burned at the stake.”
In my kitchen, as I turn my homegrown habaneros into hot sauce while
wearing a respirator (I’m not kidding) I have my own small celebration
of the evolutionary serendipity that has allowed pain-loving humans to
enjoy such tasty pain.
Rest of article at -- http://tinyurl.com/NYT-CHILE
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ENJOY!!!
From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
Home of YAHOOOOAHHHH Hot Sauce & Hardin Cider
... It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't
remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. -- George Burns