Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chileheads" dressed in pepper-print shirts, skirts and ties spent four days sampling chile dishes, taking "chile tours" of the New Mexican countryside and listening to experts like Paul ("Mr. Chile") Bosland dispense advice on how to grow just about every member of the family, from the mild-mannered bell pepper to the Mexican habanero, the world's hottest. The chile mania "has really turned into a tiger," says Bosland, who has headed the chile-research program at New Mexico State University since...
Among Americans, the most popular pepper is the innocuous bell, followed by the pimento, used in making paprika and stuffing olives, and the green jalapeno, common in nachos and green salsas. Chile connoisseurs also extol the virtues of such lesser-known varieties as the smoky chipotle, the fleshy red- brown poblano, the piquant pequin and the sweet-tasting habanero, which is famed, perhaps notorious, for its pure, blazing fire. In New Mexico, the chile-growing capital of the U.S., the longish local variety is often served stuffed with cheese or as a topping for hamburgers and pizza...
...idea of a homeland uplifts the Black community "Because they accomplished [the emigration effort] together." The jubilation felt at leaving the America portrayed by Bell is somewhat disturbing, especially when he suggests in another chapter that the (white) government would put the entire Black population into the hands of space aliens in exchange for a solution to America's greatest environmental and economic problems...
...However, Bell forgives middle-class Blacks who separate themselves from the underclass because they too face racism, a racism that Bell presumes would rear its ugly head in a moment of crisis...
...perfectly capable of coming straight out with his theories, but Professor Bell is at his best in Faces at the Bottom of the Well when he creates a fictional narrative with an eerie, yet plausible, finale...