Nice to meet you buckytom!! Unfortunately this is my first cooking forum. Hopefully I am not walking on anyones toes with the nick. I got the nick from a cookbook my sister has called "Food that really Schmecks". I love the sound of the word "Schmecks" and I did a little research about it and found where it came from "Schmecken means to savour, to taste (as in tasting food, wines, teas, etc...) la degustation. A Schmecker (feminine Schmeckerin) is a professional or skilled taster. Schmecken has passed into English from German-speaking communities to mean to have a lot of flavour"