The Weekend of Fire event hasn’t even happened yet and it’s making some news. We ran across this article from the Middletown Journal and wanted to make sure we pointed our readers to it. In it, the writer even quotes Jungle Jim’s own hot sauce maestro Bret Vitek.

Weekend of fire promises to bring on the heat

By Michael D. Pitman
Staff Writer

Monday, July 30, 2007

FAIRFIELD — More than 50 vendors from across the country will turn up the heat at Jungle Jim’s International Food Market’s Weekend of Fire.

The inaugural Weekend of Fire will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Jungle Oscar Event Center. Vendors will offer tastes of a variety of products from hot sauce to salsa, barbecue, mustards and more.

Owner “Jungle” Jim Bonaminio created the Weekend of Fire after attending the Fiery Food and Barbecue Show in Albuquerque, N.M., said international foods manager Bret Vitek.

“We were out there two years ago, and (Bonaminio) said, ‘Why can’t we do something like this? Why can’t we make it a big demo kind of thing?’ ” Vitek said.

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