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...strips and chile-laced chocolate cake. Amateur cooks have joined the craze with the help of more than 20 cookbooks devoted exclusively to hot and spicy Mexican, Thai and Cajun foods. Mail-order outlets like Hot Stuff in New York City, Mo Hotta Mo Betta Co. in San Luis Obispo, California, and Hatch Chile Express in Hatch, New Mexico, sell fresh chile pods, powders and jars of salsa, as well as such kitschy pepperphernalia as chile-shaped fishing lures, earrings and ashtrays. "It used to be our customers would look confused and ask what they should do ((with chile products...
...Luis Obispo, a scenic town of 42,000 on California's central coast, until recently displayed a road sign with a happy face urging people to SMILE, YOU ARE 192 MILES FROM L.A. Mounting antigrowth pressure is aimed not only at Los Angeles as the symbol of overdevelopment but also at the increasing number of escapees from L.A., whose arrival is regarded as a threat to small-town ways. When Cornelius Deasy, 72, left L.A. to retire there and applied for water-drawing rights to irrigate his new popcorn farm, his neighbors were enraged. "We were the Ugly Americans...
...mood, in fact, is profoundly ambivalent. Many inhabitants of secondary cities would dearly like to have the opportunities and higher wage scales that exist in Los Angeles, but without the tensions of expansion. As a result, the political consequences of the growth debate are frequently contradictory. In San Luis Obispo last spring, voters defeated a ballot measure that would have restricted new development one-third, to the statewide growth level of 2.4% a year. But just five months later, the same voters opted for a slow-growth majority on the board of supervisors...
Other vintners are taking their cues from Italy. Iron Horse's Tancer and Dominic Martin of San Luis Obispo's Martin Bros. are among winemakers who have planted such Italian varietals as Nebbiolo and Sangiovese; Tancer intends to blend his Sangiovese with Cabernet or Merlot in new proprietary wines similar to ones being produced in Tuscany. There is a certain irony here. Investment banker William Hambrecht, who sells the Zinfandel grapes from his Sonoma ranch to Ridge Vineyards, notes that many of these newly fashionable varietals were first planted in California at the century's turn by Italian immigrants...
...deduction on their income from ESOP loans, which enables them to charge lower interest rates to companies that borrow for such programs. "These are the kinds of tax incentives that corporate owners dream of," says ESOP expert Joseph Blasi of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo...