At 12:10 PM 5/10/00 +1000, SHUETRIM, Mark (Parramtta) wrote: >Greetings fellow CHs > >I would like to preface my comment with the following disclaimer - I joined >the chile-head list only yesterday and am not familiar with some of the >jargon (hotlucks?) or the etiquette of contribution, please bear with me. > >I believe the common personality trait shared by all CHs is that we are >alone. Alone in the sense that until we locate other CHs we have no-one to >share our chile stories, recipes and experiences with. All of you know the This is no longer the case, my friend! Your lonely days as a ChileHead are a thing of the past... Hotlucks are an actual physical gathering of ChileHeads where many varieties of spicy foods are brought and prepared (Hot + Potluck = Hotluck). I've traveled from Virginia to Pennsylvania to Massachussets and New Hampshire to attend Hotlucks. Also flew to Albuquerque for a Fiery foods Festival. Images of many of these events can be seen on my photo gallery at: http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens/gallery.html =Mark