Chile pepper could aid weight loss
The back story: With the seasonal harvest of chile peppers under way, it seemed appropriate to revisit the pepper’s reputation as a weight-loss aid. Claims of medicinal properties of chile peppers have circulated for years. The reported benefits have included everything from easing arthritis pain to lowering cholesterol. In 2002, [...]

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Sixteenth Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Contest Winners – we’re happy for all of them, but especially:

A word about some other goings-on from ZestFest 2006:
OUR TEAM IS RED-HOT
ZestFest 2006 cooks up scholarship competition for local colleges
Fort Worth, TX – The Fort Worth Culinary Institute vs. Tarrant County Community College is sure to heat up ZestFest 2006, at the Will Rogers Center in Fort Worth on September 9th and 10th. [...]

All I can say is bless my mom’s heart. The day I arrived in Cleveland to visit her (Heidi) and dad (Richard), she immediately whisked me away to Legacy Village in Lyndhurst, Ohio. There it was, Heather’s Heat and Flavor! I walked directly up to co-owner, Brian Marx, and introduced myself as a fellow chili-head. [...]

As a former resident of Bradenton, Florida, I was a little nostalgic to see such a great new hot sauce shop doing good business there. John Martell’s Hot Shot Pepper Emporium is only a few miles from where I used to live, and we’ll definitely stop in on our next trip to the ol’ hometown…whenever [...]

Great article featuring the siling labuyo chile, which we had never heard of before now. This chile is actually from Capsicum frutescens, the same as a Rocoto chile…although the siling labuyo looks like a miniature cayenne pepper. From the Manila Bulletin Online, we found this article which you may find interesting if only for the [...]

Our main source of forum discussion for the world of hot & spicy, TheHotPepper, has undergone a much-needed overhaul, face-lift, or whatever you want to call it. Feel free to go there to get involved in discussions of hot sauces, chile peppers, chili, BBQ, recipes, selling/buying, or even free-for-all discussion area that can be [...]

Here’s a really great article about some of the hot sauce & salsa offerings in and around the Austin, Texas area:
Hot-saucy legends get fired up for the festival
Much of this is a prelude to the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, which is happening this coming weekend on August 27…which just happens to be Joe’s birthday!! [...]

This is yet another “exotic” offering from the folks at Peppermaster. It’s hard to know what’s more impressive…the sauce recipes they come up with or how good they get them to taste. With this sauce’s name, I didn’t know where to begin with using it. The contents of the jar included:
Ingredients: apple cider, peppers, ginger, [...]

As many of you know, the Hot Sauce Blog is (and has been) down. While Nick claims that there are “technical difficulties” with hosting…let’s all be realistic here. We know that there’s something else at work that’s depriving his minions of chileheads their daily fix.
We’re not conspiracy theorists, mind you, but we have some notions [...]