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Entries for August, 2006

Cookin’ With CaJohn

hile rummaging through some papers around our desk, we ran across a few recipes from the Grillmasters 2006 Festival here a few months ago. There was a pamphlet from CaJohn’s cooking demonstration that we always meant to publish…but misplaced the flyer until now. Here are a few recipes for you, a la CaJohn:

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A hometown Chinese food treat

We don’t often offer up some mad props to some of our local hometown eateries which feed us and appease our chilehead desires when we don’t feel like cooking for ourselves. Not more than half a mile from our house sits a Chinese food eatery that fits the bill. Called Twin Sunlight, we’ve been patronizing [...]

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Mini-Review: BBQ Thai Satay by Peppermaster

There’s hot sauces that are hot and those that taste really good, and a special few that have both. This is one of those sauces. After trying the tiniest bit on the tip of my finger, I just knew that I was going to regret only having a mere 45 mL of sauce to use [...]

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Hot sauce featured on the History Channel

f you are able to catch a glimpse tonight…tune into the HISTORY Channel…AMERICAN EATS: Condiments, a one hour show (starting at 10 p.m. and showing again at 2 a.m. EST) in a 13 part series about American Foods.
Chuck Evans, of Montezuma Brand and Smokey Chipotle Sauces and Salsa, is one of the guest commentators on [...]

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Giving hot sauce gifts

More than any time in recent memory, I have truly become “the hot sauce guy” at work. Since I work in & around an operating room, I am getting an increasing number of the OR crew (nurses, techs, surgeons, etc) who are asking me about hot sauce, what I like to eat, where I get [...]

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Passow Takes a Short Break

Well, just like Joe and Linda are prepping for their trip to Zest Fest, I too will be traveling. I’m going to be visiting the parental units back in Cleveland, Ohio from Aug 17-22. I’ll try to do a review or two while I am there, but can’t promise anything. I will be going to [...]

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Another company weighs in on Original Juan

We just received the below email in support of an email we posted nearly two weeks ago regarding an ongoing war of words between Original Juan and the Cafe Tequila company. Read for yourself:

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Review: Scotty B’s “Green With Envy” Prototype

We have really enjoyed Scotty B’s sauces a great deal here at home, as evidenced by the the Scotty B’s Feature we wrote a while ago. When given a chance to sample to try out some of the new stuff that Scotty B had ready for release, we were more than happy to accept a [...]

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Collectors have a special deal at ZestFest

We finally received an email from Chile Pepper to let all the collectors know what they can do for part of their time at the show.
ZestFest 2006 is pleased to extend this invitation to all hot sauce collectors to experience the excitement of ZestFest 2006 all weekend long!
Collectors can purchase a special collectors badge for [...]

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Serious post – Traveling to & from ZestFest 2006

In case you have been in a cave, under a rock, or otherwise separated from any of the mass news media outlets, you have no doubt seen the story about the foiled terror plot from downing large numbers of planes leaving Great Britain using explosives in common, everyday items like sports drinks and hair gel. [...]

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