Following on the heels of his Nuclear Scurvy hot sauce, I have been effort-ing to get the review of this other sauce from Lynn Duck (who’s quite the manly man, btw) done before the winter is over! I have been so inundated with stuff to taste and review that it is sometimes hard to [...]

Jackson’s Signature Series Awesome Habanero Beef Jerky: Ingredients: Meat, Spices.
The guys over at Super Spicy sent me a little care package with their famous Jackson’s Signature Series Awesome Habanero Beef Jerky. Aptly named, this stuff is pretty awesome. It has all the things I like about jerky, thick, tough, chewy, spicy, and hot!

Hmmm, DEFCON days are moving away from us, not towards us. Must talk to John about that…
Maybe when they are Rulers of the Earth, they can get one of those closer to Ohio.
ANOTHER DEFCON DAY ALERT!!!
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27TH, 1-4PM
After the overwhelming success at the last DEFCON Day at Toro Loco on [...]

Great article penned by Bruce Stephen from the Vancouver North Shore Outlook out of British Columbia. It’s a cool discussion about a few of our favorite kinds of chile peppers, which we’re glad to see that the capsaicin-loving public is alive and well in the Great White North! Enjoy.
Some like it hot
By Bruce [...]

After reviewing John Finlay’s first sauce and enjoying it a fair amount, I was eagerly awaiting the chance to run amok with this sauce. While I have a perverse sense of pride about dissing the milder sauces as compared to the hotter, I had a guarded sense of optimism about this sauce. John [...]

Got a quickie message from Patti Levenson from the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum with a reminder about an upcoming event. In it, she says:
Forgot to mention that you can see all the info about the Napa Valley Mustard Festival & World-Wide Mustard Competition at www.mustardfestival.org.
If you know any mustard makers that should enter, [...]

We’re so pumped about this! Linda will be one of the judges for the Chef’s Chili Challenge and Joe will be a judge for the Amateur Salsa Competition.
Not only that, but Joe will also be returning to defend his title in the Chili Pepper Eating Contest. He will be suffering…er, competing…to [...]

We were pretty pumped to get a jar of Passow’s pepper jam in the mail recently. It both looks and smell amazing. Very red and very pepper-y, I went back to basics in terms of what to try this jam out with to give it a proper tasting. The solution? PB [...]

Following on the heels of the exclusive news story that we broke yesterday, comes the official press release.

One of the true gems from our trip to ZestFest 2006 was meeting the nice ladies from Heaters Nuts. We were casually strolling around the convention hall when we wandered by their booth, which wasn’t receiving a whole lot of love there on the Trade Day. We tasted a few samples of their [...]