Our next entry into the HZOB’s Homemade Hot Sauce feature comes from Gordon Cameron from Washington, D.C. His amateur venture, called Capitol Punishment, features a current stable of five hot sauces, including this one called Must-Have-Mango.
Gordon’s intro for this sauce goes like this:
Move aside and let this mango through!
Tropical [...]

First impression: Before sitting down to taste this sauce, I made sure to re-visit our previous Feature about the Loco Luna sauces. I’m glad I did, as it was a way to return to the mindset I had after trying them the first time. Same cool bottle & label, with sauce within that beckoned to [...]

Tina from Peppermaster shared a great story with us about some of the fun stuff she has to deal with selling hot sauce in her native Quebec. We have had experience with the French while living in Belgium, both of the people from France and the French-speaking Wallons from Belgium. The one truism was that [...]

From our buddy, Brian, at Loco Luna comes some long-awaited news about his latest release:

For a chilehead, even the simple gastronomic pleasure of spicy chicken wings can be hard to find a good level of satisfaction. Now we’ve written about past frustrations with our local BW3 chain, but the recent TV onslaught of commercials about some new wing sauces gave us hope that we might try again…but just that [...]

OK, all those planning to go should step forward and say so!
For the first time since the 2001 Fiery Foods Show in Albuquerque, NM, we will be taking our blog on the road and heading to a industry trade show. If you don’t know what ZestFest is, here’s a quote from the ZestFest 2006 website:
What [...]

With an intro title like that, how can you go wrong? This was written about on the HSB a couple of months ago, but we’re visiting this one here on the HZOB for the first time. If you don’t know what we mean, here it is:

Our next Feature returnsus to the great state of Texas, where salsa is obviously both a passion and a labor of love. Darrell and Candy Fitch are the owners and proprietors of Big Dawg Salsa, who bring to the market small, hand-made batches of salsa with heat levels to suit every palate and/or masochistic desire. [...]

The North Market Fiery Foods Festival which Joe attended on February 18 had two Chili Cookoffs, one for the Customer (i.e. non-professional food people) and one for the Chefs (professional food chefs and similar trades). Since we’ve hosted Chili Cookoffs ourselves, it was interesting to see some of the similarities and differences when someone else [...]