Jim Campbell, master of ceremonies
Well, even though I was only there for a few hours, I thought it was worth putting together a photo montage of Open Fields 2007 for the blogging public who weren’t able to be there for themselves. I had to work a 12-hour shift from 7p-7a on Saturday night of [...]

Well, after a whirlwind trip to the secret pepper farm in central Indiana for Open Fields, I have returned to homebase here in Ohio bearing a heap big pile o’ peppers. Pictures to follow soon! There would have been more of those, but a yucky growing season with little rain caused about 80% [...]

I can totally sympathize with the author of this article from cnjonline.com, since I’ve been someone who’s accidentally polluted their mother with something spicy enough to hurt ‘em. It totally makes me miss the experience at Garduño’s restaurant in Albuquerque. If I lived there, I would find a way to eat red or [...]

Some sauces simply aren’t what you think they are going to be.
I remember trying this sauce for the first time at the Jungle Jim’s Weekend of Fire show, and being please albeit a little bit puzzled by it. Was it a hot sauce, a dessert sauce, a fruit sauce, or some combination of the [...]

We’re not always much for fancy-shmancy recipes that we see online, but this article from the Showbuzz website from CBS news that was obviously from a show that highlighted chile peppers as well as how to cook with them. We weren’t going to publish yet another version of Chile Peppers 101, but a [...]

As the domestic and overseas hot & spicy foods market receive more Naga (or Bhut) Jolokia peppers and powder, the inevitable flood of products worth trying are starting to appear. Thanks to Dave DeWitt for pointing some of these out, so we have to give props where that is due. Above you can [...]

This isn’t exactly a hot sauce review, but when you have a chance to try this one for yourself, you’ll say “Who cares?”
(Author’s note: While the sauce I reviewed is no longer marketed under the name Chocolate Glow, it is now available with the name Chocolate Passion. This will explain the discrepancy between the [...]

It sometimes seems like we quote an awful lot of articles about the Bhut Jolokia pepper, but it is the latest pepper fad to hit the Americas in decades. That, plus our own experience with growing it (or failure to do so…but we’ll save that for another post) and eating it carries a certain [...]

The State Journal-Register out of Springfield, IL really has it going on lately with some great articles of interest to chileheads. This first article is a great story on the ongoing phenomenon of the Bhut Jolokia out of India. Here is an excerpt:
‘When you eat it, it’s like dying’
By TIM SULLIVAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published [...]

A little late in the reporting process, but we received an email from Monty Fritts from Monty’s Gourmet Foods letting us know that awards juggernaut just keeps on going:

Monty’s Gourmet Foods Wins 14 More Awards
Monty has done it again. Monty’s Gourmet Foods L.L.C. is proud to announce that it has won 14 more awards at [...]