There are so many great pictures of hot sauce collections today on the internet, some of which you can find over on the HSB and on Blair’s Extremefood.com website. You can even see ours HERE to see how we display ours. The question we want to ask is how do YOU out there display all [...]

In our previous post about the Fiery Foods Show at the North Market here in Columbus, OH, I mentioned that there would be a Chile Pepper Eating Contest. Now I (Joe) had never participated in anything like this before, so my mind could not wrap itself around what sort of gastronomic torture awaited me. After [...]

TWO HOT MAMAS SALSA
Austin, Texas: A city awash in a sea of salsa. Salsa, the Spanish word for sauce, has come to mean something of a spicy, often chunky dip, usually for dipping tortilla chips in. Here in Austin patrons at Tex-Mex eateries expect it…hell, demand it to be brought to the table minutes after [...]

It’s hard to believe sometimes that this humble blog started out of a desire to simply show off our ever-growing hot sauce collection to anyone willing to look at it. Back then, we had our site on our ISP’s web-server and it averaged 5 hits per day…and that’s even with being on the Ring of [...]

Ahhh, Colorado. Home to the ski slopes of Vail, the Denver Broncos and Nuggets, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and…great salsa? Sean Sorrin of Epic Valley Salsa dropped us a line and asked us to give their salsa a whirl. Despite any preconceived notions we might have had about the Centennial State, Epic Valley Salsa [...]

We here at the HZOB have been eagerly awaiting this issue of Chile Pepper Magazine to arrive on our doorstep for quite a while. Several weeks ago, Joe answered some questions from one of CP’s intrepid reporters, Renee, who wanted to find out some information on our take on hot sauces and hot sauce collecting.
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There are so many chileheads out there who make some quality hot sauces, salsas, spice mixes, and other spicy goodies that we want to give them some recognition as well. Whether you are just an amateur who makes stuff on a yearly basis or are an up and coming entrepreneur, we want to hear [...]

In what we hope will become an ongoing column here at the HZOB, we decided to go ahead and offer some homage to those amateur hot sauce makers who whip up batches of hot sauce goodness each year. Our first review goes to Tim O. (aka Iron Chef), one of Joe’s cyberbuddies and fellow Tequila [...]

We finally get a Fiery Foods Show here in the heart of Ohio! See the below press release, also found at The North Market’s website:

While Joe usually writes the introductions to our features, I feel I needed to step in on this one. John Hard is the heart & soul of CaJohns Fiery Foods, and lives not far from us here in Columbus, OH in the heart of Buckeye Nation. Because he’s so close, we got to meet with [...]