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Entries for May, 2007

Hey Fatso!

Yeah, you!
Been thinking about ordering Dr. Antoniades’ Book, The Hot Sauce Diet? Been thinking that maybe this might be the way to go? Have you also been thinking that maybe you might want to order those Peppermaster Hot Sauces that you keep reading about (and I keep talking about?) but haven’t yet taken the plunge?
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Hot Ass Devil Juice XX Hot Sauce by Tahiti Joe

Coming on the heels of Passow’s last review of the Mangonesian Chipotle sauce, it’s a bit ironic that my next review that was waiting in the wings was also a Tahiti Joe hot sauce. This one, the Hot Ass Devil Juice XX Hot Sauce, seemed to be a hot sauce that was either going [...]

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Memorial Day 2007, with a little spicy mustard

So, how did you spend your Memorial Day? If like us, you decided to exercise your grill and BBQ up some charred meat, then you are in a select company of a few million Americans who likely did so this year. But, did you get your spicy mustard mojo on?? After grilling [...]

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Passow’s Particularly Potent Pretty Pepper Plants

With Joe and Linda posting pictures of their great looking pepper plants for this season, I felt it was time to show off some of my beauties. My roommate and good friend, Dave Reed started growing pepper plants about 3 years ago (along with many a vegetable) and this will be our fourth year. Last [...]

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Fire Brand Sauces hits the market running

This looked like an interesting article from PRWEB, so perhaps anyone who’s tried these sauces might chime in with a comment. It looks like swanky enough label art and marketing, but can the sauces be any good? Perhaps we’ll get some and taste them for ourselves and find out. For now, here’s [...]

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Passow Takes a Trip to Mangonesia

I got a package from Tahiti Joe’s Hot Sauces a little bit ago of his whole line and one of those bottles is Maui Pepper Co. Mangonesian Chipotle. After much testing to find the right kind of food for this unique sauce, the results are in.

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Sounds like a great place to get some hot wings

We seldom post restaurant reviews on places where we’ve not yet eaten, but this one caught our eye. Besides being chicken wing aficionados ourselves (and have struggled to find good ones locally), we just love what this author from the Memphis Commercial Appeal had to say about this wing eatery known as The Wing [...]

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Transplanting finally done!

Jamaican Hot Pepper
Well, it took some creative time-management in the middle of my busy work week, but I was able to finish transplanting the rest of our assortment of chile pepper plants. As you can see above from the close-up view of the Jamaican Hot Pepper plant, a Capsicum chinense related to the habanero, [...]

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The Scoville scale and one way to learn about it

Just recently, we’ve received a couple of emails from people about how to assess the heat level of food in regards to spiciness. You don’t have to be a food scientist to understand it anymore, so here’s an excerpt from an interesting article in the Winston-Salem Journal about one person’s journey to Scoville lucidity:
Scoville [...]

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Weekend of Fire updates – May 22

As expected, and with a thrill in his wee ol’ heart, Bret from Jungle Jim’s has let us know that they are officially sold out on tables for the vendor’s hall. With 4+ dozen to their credit, we are actually surprised that they didn’t fill up sooner. In fact, there’s even a waiting [...]

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