Important note to FF: You do NOT want to mail fresh green chiles to anybody, and expecially not in a plastic bag. Only the dried ristras are moderately safe to enclose. A bunch of green chiles turn into toxic waste during the plane trip. Chiles give off an unbelievable amount of gas and they ferment immediately if enclosed in a warm area. I have this on the best authority, including a hillarious story about what the Swiss customs authorities had to do with the luggage of a friend taking chiles to Switzerland for her family
