This article at http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html?1051724 may interest you - you may have to go to the font page and register before you can go any further, but it's free. Then go to Style (picklist on the left) and have a look around. BTW: The cookery column is usually worth a look, even if it isn't devoted to chillies (or chiles or chilis or chillis). What the heck. If a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, a chile under similar circumstances would still taste great. You may not have noticed: I am no poet, and I do know it. So there. Sam. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A volunteer? Someone who didn't hear the question. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------