My first week in America, I poured half a bottle of hot sauce into my food. "Wow," said my dining companion, a girl from Connecticut who rode on the equestrian team. "I can tell you're not from here." I laughed. "Because I like hot sauce?" "No, but you just put so much of it into your food - I like my food much more delicately seasoned than that. That's why I can't handle curry. It's…