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I finished reading Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail today. I bought it from Fedco a few years back and finally dug down to it in my reading pile. I bought it because it's about peppers and I read all sorts of books about peppers. It wasn't what I expected, but then again I don't think it was what the authors expected when they started out. I think they started out with the idea of writing a book about how climate change is affecting pepper growing, but their conclusion seems to be farmers meet all sorts of challenges with determination and improvisation. Farmers don't always succeed and there is a real danger to having a diverse food supply from urbanization, mass production industrial farming, and potentially climate change. It can be quite grim being a farmer, but most of that grimness has been in play for decades or centuries. It is not getting better and climate change may make it worse. Farmers can tell you when they have bad weather, no one can tell you that one bit of bad weather is caused by climate change. At least not yet.

29. Kurt Michael Friese, Kraig Kraft, & Gary Paul Nabhan Chasing Chilies: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail