RE: [CH] chile books

Parkhurst, Scott Contractor (PARKHURS@LEAV-EMH1.ARMY.MIL)
Sun, 25 Jul 1999 08:09:02 -0500

> > Can anyone recommend  good chile pepper books - 
> > with color pictures or illustrations that gives good 
> > descriptions of a majority of the different peppers. 
> 
> Peppers of the World, by Dewitt/Bosland
> 
> It covers 315 varieties of pepper plants.  It has a lot of 
> information regarding chiles, and I like the way it is 
> organized.  There is a glaring mistake in the metric
> conversion chart:  the info in the inches and centimeters
> columns is reversed, as in it reads 10 in = 3.9 cm.
> 
> Scott... Not nearly *that* metrically challenged... KCK