Re: [CH] Chilpotle

Doug Irvine (dougandmarie@shaw.ca)
Thu, 03 Jul 2003 18:01:47 -0700 

OH MY! Ol David can be a meany! HUGE :-)))) from this side of the pond, 
who also "liberated"! Well, sorta....we still love old Liz, who is the 
same age as me, and whose birthday is the same day as OUR Karen 
Elizabeth, who just happens to be visiting us at the moment, from the 
wilds of Eastern BC a town named Sparwood, where if ya spit, ya hit 
Alberta! Our youngest dtr and her guy, and their little 11 yr old, who 
came first in her class, and is a champion swimmer at her young age! Old 
Doug in BC(who uses Jim's chipotles all the time!!)

Dave Anderson wrote:
> Once upon a time, before people like you and I came along, thin skinned chiles like 
> cayennes were dried and thick skinned chiles were smoked to preserve them. The 
> thick skinned chiles would rot before drying out unless they were smoked.
> 
> Now that we have dehydrators and smokers and smoking dehydrators and 
> visionaries like Jim Campbell who was probably the first person roll up and smoke a 
> Red Savina Habanero, nothing is sacred.
> 
> Chilpotle, if I remember my Nahuatl means chil for pepper and potle, derived from 
> poctli means smoked.
> 
> Ergo, any smoked pepper is a chilpotle so you very well could have run into 
> something made with smoked cayenne and correctly labeled chilpotle. Any decent 
> hot sauce shop on this side of the pond would let you try a sample before your spent 
> your birthday money but maybe that's one of the reasons we're celebrating our 
> independence from you tomorrow:-)
> 
> Dave
> TLCC
> http://www.tough-love.com
> 
> 
> 
>>Must tell y'all though. I was window shopping the other day and
>>spotted a bottle of Hot Chili Sauce. Not the love of my life 'Hab',
>>but a strange item. It was labled 'Smoked Chipotle Chili Sauce' I
>>could see enough to note that it was made from Chipotle Cayenne. Is
>>this a rare item friends? I never knew they smoked Cayenne peppers.
>>Well if it is true, then now you know why I love all things American.
>>Yikes! I shall have a look in the shop when it is open. It is my
>>birthday in a few weeks time, maybe the ever loving will treat this
>>old codger to a bottle? Nah! She wouldn't do that. Would she? Love you
>>all. Hottest regards. Walt. CH#2218. An old Chile-Head from the old
>>country.
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