> It seems a bit odd that, with the global representation on this list, we > don't have many people posting from India. Maybe because there aren't any chile-heads there. Chile is just a natural ordinary background part of life there, nothing to think about, you just use as much as appropriate where appropriate. Just like we don't have any 'black-pepper-heads' or 'use-of-water-in-cooking' lists (I believe). --- Brent