Welcome to the third and final part in of experience at The 5th Annual Fiery Foods Festival at The North Market in Columbus, Ohio. We have now reached the final portion, The Wings of Fire Event of DOOM!!!! Well, ok, I added the “of Doom” part but still, you get the picture.

Welcome one and all, well, except that guy over there, he hasn’t showered in a week. This is the second part to my 3 part expose on The 5th Annual Fiery Foods Festival at The North Market in Columbus, Ohio. Last we left our hero he was out sampling beers.

Rather than try to narrate through a ton of pictures, here is the 2008 North Market Wings of Fire competition slideshow:
Wings of Fire 2008 slideshow
CaJohn will have remind me what the list of wing sauces the amateurs did, but the chilehead division went through wings at these levels of heat, all CaJohns hot sauces:
Cojones
Ace
Fatalii Fire
Talon
Scorch
Sauce [...]

Now that I’m temporarily back in Cleveland, Ohio I get the chance to visit something Joe and Linda got to cover last year. The Fiery Foods Festival at The North Market in Columbus, Ohio is a yearly event where the market does a “theme day” event based around fiery foods. This year was their fifth [...]

There’s quite a bit to say about this past North Market Fiery Foods Festival, but the next two posts will focus upon the goings on around the two chili cook-offs, the professional chefs one and the amateur competition.
First, about the amateur Chili Cook-off. This featured a selection of amateur chili chefs, each with their [...]

Bret Vitek of Jungle Jim’s has passed along some hotel information so that anyone wishing to make reservations can do so at anytime. There are some good rates to be had, so give these folks a call and reserve a room for the show:
Hotel info
Holiday Inn Express 513-860-2924
La Quinta Inn [...]

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In honor of Blair’s most recent news, announced on Valentine’s Day, we present a YouTube video of Blair himself as featured on the Food Network’s “Unwrapped” show. Those of you lucky enough to be attending the Fiery Foods Show in NM this month, please say hi to Blair from us. Maybe pick [...]

Here is a book you can pick up for some reading before you go to the Fiery Foods Show in Albuquerque at the end of this month. Maybe take yourself a copy and have Dave sign it for you himself. Check out this press release Newswire Today about his new book:
‘Pope of Peppers’ [...]

Just in time given CaJohn’s announcement of these products on his Flavor and Fire blog, we actually had a bottle of this BBQ sauce lurking on our “to-do” shelf where it’s been for about 6 weeks or so now. We had a chance to briefly taste this sauce awhile back as well, but nothing [...]

You can guarantee that whenever olives come into this house they are all mine. Joe has never liked olives, but I love them. I’ve had them in things, on things and by themselves. Each way they are fantastic. But, some are better than others.
Many, many years ago I discovered [...]