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Ken Blake
 
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In oups.com,
> typed:

> me too!
>
> Here's another article:
>
> Thursday, September 22, 2005
>
> Procuring peppers in Sichuan is a painful, pungent pursuit
>
> TED ANTHONY of Associated Press in Chengdu



....


> Sichuan food is nothing like Szechuan food, its American
> counterpart.
> Once I was in a Chinese restaurant in a large northeastern city
> when a
> woman at the next table bleated to her companion, "Szechuan
> means
> SPICY in Chinese." Well, no, actually Sichuan means four lakes.



Doesn't Sichuan mean "four rivers"?

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