At 12:56 15/02/98 EST, PegVA@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 98-02-15 02:45:49 EST, Andie writes: > ><< I don't know if there is any connection between reading SF and being a > spicy food lover, but I grew up eating hot, hot foods, and I started > reading SF in the early 50s. >> > >There must be a connection. Chiles and SF are my biggest passions! >peg e. > > Add me to the list. I'm a very big SF fan beside the chiles.. but I've gotta include music on that list too. When I've watched Deep Space 9 on TV, the Captain's father is a owner/chief of a restaurant in New Orleans..and yes there are Tabasco and other hot sauce bottles on the tables. I keep hoping they'll mention the chiles someday. Also the Bajorans make a dish called Hasfras.. that is always described as spicy and strong if it is good. I figure they use some form of alien chiles to make it that way. ;-)... Crazy Coyote - Howlin' for Habaneros "The key to my lyrics is imagination. The rest is painted with a little Science-Fiction" -Jimi Hendrix