Fordyman, please remember to leave out the copious amounts of cumin that are in my recipe!

Don't know how carefully you read so maybe I don't need to say this, but I only added the cumin to add a "not-quite-foodlike" character, when I realized that whatever the other dominant, not-quite-food flavor besides smoke was, I wasn't going to be able to achieve it with my recipe. That "other flavor" is what many people think is tamarind, so when you add the tamarind you won't need the cumin...and the cumin takes the sauce down a whole different flavor alley, anyway. A good one, but not Woody's.

Claire