Sorry I missed that. I have my web browser set so that it doesn't underline links unless I mouse over them. It means the page is a lot less cluttered, but sometimes I miss the little links embedded in the text.

A friend of mine was married to the famous ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan for a while back in the 1990s. She has a funny story about tepary beans. A food writer from the New York Times was travelling all the way out to where they were living at the time, in a remote national monument, to interview Gary and to sample some of the native foods he used to cook. My friend wasn't a gourmet by any means, and had lived in the desert and out of cans most of her life. So when she noticed that the pot of beans in the fridge was pretty low she opened a can of Van Camp's and mixed them in to extend the batch (not realizing who it was who was coming to dinner). The way she tells the story, when she put the pot on the table the expressions on Gary's and the writer's faces were priceless. :)

SRS