[CH] Finger Heart
Jose Cisneros (jcisn@novagate.com)
Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:41:48 -0500
Yo, Y'all
I think I like Finger-Heart as a name for a chile better than Finger-Hot
Not that Finger-Hot is bad, for me it has a certain speech impaired euphemistic
overtones that the thirteen year old in me really likes.
Finger-Heart is more poetic to my somewhat addled way of thinking.
It reminds me of a character in one of a series of books by Stephen Donaldson called
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever.
The character's name was Salt-Heart Foamfollower.
A sailor's name if there ever was one.
I imagine a ship's cook named Finger-Heart Rib-Tickler late of the merchant marine.
Hell, I don't know maybe he still has his union card and is still paying his dues.
Last I heard he had jumped ship at Papua.
As to whether Finger-Heart ever used chiles while cooking for his mates I don't know.
No one has ever ask me and if they had I would have give them an I don't know.
At a guess I would say yes. Can't make a Cioppino without a little dried chile.
I know I do cause I've checked.
I implore all you chile growers out there in Pepper land to consider hybridizing
Finger-Hot chiles with Heart chiles and naming the resultant progeny Finger-Heart,
thereby immortalizing the figment of a wine addled, cabin fevered thought, from a denizen of the
great northwest, validating his existence and adding to his megalomania in the process.
L8r
Hose-A