Some stories about the products we review, feature, or even appreciate are ones truly worth telling. Today, kudos go out to Tanya Lazenby of Kevin, MT for her dedication to the memory of her father who apparently made some really #*@&$! good BBQ sauce. Perhaps someday we’ll be able to try some of Cecil’s Secret [...]

It’s taken a little time for me to get to this tasting…but for this review, I had to take the Beaver on the road! CJ himself gifted us with this bottle. I took the bottle to work with me a couple of times, and it took some taste-tests to convince the adoring crowds that I [...]

Great salsa always seems to end up in the least likely of places, showing the public that spicy food is destined to take over the universe. Take this story about University of Minnesota student Nick Beste,
‘U’ Student Turns Love Of Salsa Into Side Job
Amelia Santaniello Reporting
(WCCO) University of Minnesota student, Nick Beste, is making money [...]

Great article about HZOB fave Uncle Brutha (with picture) and his newly opened Uncle Brutha’s Hot Sauce Emporium on Capitol Hill there in our nation’s capitol. It looks like UB is selling not only his own stock of fine hot sauces, but regional and nationally known selections as well. If we were still living in [...]

Enchiladas are one of those quintessential Mexican foods that just made to have hot sauce and/or chile peppers added to it. In this article from St. Paul Pioneer Press, they agree with us and give a nice recipe that gives a base for your next home enchilada adventure. Who knew that enchiladas were so big [...]

First impression: Now I fully realize that this sauce was made as a sort of collectible bottle, signed and numbered, to have sales of it benefit the American Cancer Society. That aside, I couldn’t help but wonder how the contents of the bottle tasted. Since we acquired three bottles at the time, I decided that [...]

Just like you wouldn’t want to confuse Coke with Pepsi, let’s not confuse your habanero peppers with your Scotch Bonnet peppers. From this article from the Jamaica Gleaner news:
The Scotch bonnet pepper (Capsicum chinense)
Scotch bonnet is a variety of chilli or chilli pepper, similar to, and of the same species as, the habanero. It is [...]

Betcha didn’t know that they can cook up spicy corn bread in them thar hills. Well, neither did we. Some enterprising young ladies from West Virginia have created some hot pepper butter and hot pepper relish that they use to give some schwerve to the Southwestern delicacy that is corn bread. You can see the [...]

Are you in the northern V.A./D.C. metro area? If so, Tijuana Flats just opened their latest restaurant there. If you like hot sauce, this is the place for you. Check it out.

I have been invited to tickle your intellectual fancies with my writing style or is that stylish writings? Being somewhat of a self-indulgent narcissist, I have agreed. Although, I fear that you will have to occasionally put up with some of my ramblings.
For those of you who don’t know me. I am a Chilihead. I [...]