Reply #14: I like flavorful foods.

[SheilaT]

I don't do well with just hot and no other flavor. I love Chinese and Thai to name just two. But my experience with much of the chile sauce here has been simply that it's hot and there's no particular flavor involved.

I moved here at the end of last July, and didn't notice any particular fragrant odor. I did notice how excited everyone was about the chile harvest.

I'm reminded slightly of my problem with regular Mexican food. In recent years cilantro shows up in everything, except possibly the margaritas, in regular Mexican restaurants. I'm one of those for whom cilantro tastes like soap, and just imagine soap chips sprinkled on everything.

Perhaps it's simply that I didn't grow up with chile sauce on everything, but for me it does nothing to enhance certain foods. I will repeat that the chile they put on the breakfast potatoes at The Pantry here in Santa Fe is wonderful.