Re: [CH] Follow that food

Jim C (jim@wildpepper.com)
Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:32:10 -0500 

Jumping in from my Dad's computer in sunny southern Florida :-)  He's late
to the chileheads life but makes up for it by having two six foot Savinas
outside in his herb garden :-)

For awhile now there has been a trend in the industry to start to mess up
the names chipotle, mora, and morita.  Many of the large companies are
trying to tell me that morita and mora are simply a lower grade of chipotle.
When I argue, they say 'tough'.  Just like trying to argue with the
newspaper people who insist on using chili for chile since that is what is
in their AP style book :-)

Just what we need- more confusion in chile pepper names!  In order to combat
this, and since there are no other names out there just yet, I say we as a
list invent some names for 'smoked habanero' and such :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "T. Matthew Evans" <matt.evans@ce.gatech.edu>
To: "joemama" <joemama@ticino.com>; "ChileHeads"
<chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:46 PM
Subject: RE: [CH] Follow that food


> I'm not sure about that -- for example, when I lived in SoCal, one of my
> favorite dried chiles was the "chile pasilla de Oaxaca".  It was a smoked
> chile, very hot (hotter than a "regular" chipotle), similar in shape to a
> chile negro, but slightly lighter in color (and more delicate in flavor).
> Fruitier than a chipotle with the distinctive raisin-like quality of an
> ancho.
>
> Or, if you think about chiles mora and morita, these are both smoked
> serranos (traditionally) and are not usually called chipotle (although I
> think that many chiles passed off as "mora" or "morita" now are actually
> low-grade chipotles Colorado).
>
> I could be way off base here, though -- experts?
>
> Matt
>
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> T. Matthew Evans
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Geosystems Group, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> URL:  www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte964w
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> From: owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com
> [mailto:owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com]On Behalf Of joemama
> Subject: Re: [CH] Follow that food
>
>
> > (1) Gordon Idiot referred to every fresh chile as a jalapeno and every
> > smoked chile as a chipotle.
>
> Actually, as I recall, chipotle is a generic term for any smoked chile.
>
> Tom
>
>