Here’s a great pic from the booth of Susie’s Hot Sauce from ZestFest. Besides having this tastefully done set of sauces out front to get your attention, Susie had a fine bunch of sauces in her stable worth trying. If you were lucky, she let you try some of her hot sauce-infused spice [...]

For general viewing, here are two more movies from inside the show at ZestFest 2006. If you didn’t get to attend, here’s some general footage:
Starting out trade day
Open to the public
These are also in Quicktime format, and may take a few minutes to load. Both clips are about a minute long each.
Enjoy!!

We bet the Tamales were all hoping we lost this, but here’s the video we shot of them at the show at their booth:
Three Hot Tamales Video
This movie is in Quicktime format, and it’s a fairly big file…so give it time to load in your browser.
We have a lot of videos to post, so hopefully [...]

Well, we are still processing all the pics we took from ZestFest, and we even have a few
“donated” by Chuk Hell and his lovely wife Susie. Shamelessly presented, here are our “best of” pics for now: (long post, many pics!)

Wow, we finally got around to unpacking all the hot sauces, spice mixes, and other various products that we got during our trip to ZestFest. As you can see, it takes up nearly the entire length of our kitchen table…even when spaced out to make them all look spiffy when put together. Suffice [...]

XOCHiTL Habanero Salsa (pronounced so’-cheel)
Finally, some hot salsa. Really hot salsa!
Ingredients: HABANERO PEPPER, ONIONS, WATER, SALT, HERBS, SPICES
I was thumbing through the hot sauce issue of Chile Pepper magazine when I noticed the section on “XXX” hot salsas. I had seen Xochitl products around for a long time but never tried them. [...]

Ingredients: Bananas, Water, Brown Sugar, Vinegar, Soya Bean Oil, Modified Corn Startch, Carmel Color, Garlic Powder, Scallions, Black Pepper, Salt, Scotch Bonnet Peppers, Allspice, Paprika, Potassium Sorbate (preservative), Nutmeg, Citric Acid, Sugar, Thyme.
Direct from Jamaica comes Walkerswood Spicy Jamaican Jerk Barbecue Sauce! This sauce is a real treat and sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. [...]

From the blackboard jungle of New Jersey, we here at the HZOB present the Three Hot Tamales.
We met these great ladies out at ZestFest recently, and they are every bit as great in person as they’ve been via email. It’s obvious that they have a dedication to make quality products that appeals to a [...]

Former Texas Governor, Ann Richards, died last night. She was fighting esophogeal cancer and was surrounded by family & friends at her Austin home when she died.
I adored this woman and was proud to live in Texas when she was governor. Aside from being one great politician, she was a great woman. [...]

One of the more exciting things to come out of ZestFest as an unabashed collector was a chance to see & order the new T99 Reserve from Blair. Pictures I’d seen online didn’t do justice to being able to see them up close and personal. Here are some pics of them from Blair’s [...]