There are products that I run across that make me ask “How the heck did I not know about this sooner?” This is one of those. We remember tasting stuff from Sparky & Spike’s last year at the 2007 Jungle Jim’s Weekend of Fire event, but were so overwhelmed with other stuff that [...]

We received the following message from our buddy Al “Buddah” Goldenberg, who has taken on the noblest of plights…to help children afflicted with a potentially debilitating disease. Type 1 Diabetes, although named juvenile diabetes because it often manifests itself during childhood, also afflicts this writer (and happened when I was 32)…so I encourage you [...]

The Hot Zone Online salutes the lifelong chileheads who have the gumption to go into business for themselves with their passion, as evidenced from this article from the Henderson Gleaner. Kudos to Bill Barker and his Devil Breath Chile Company:
Quiet town turns red hot, spicy sauces heating up region
By Garret Mathews (Contact)
Tuesday, May 27, [...]

We are constantly thrilled to find that there are people who can make hot sauce at home that is every bit as good as the ones you buy from the professional sauce makers. However, it often takes numerous rounds of experimentation to get your sauce just right. Thank goodness for events like the [...]

I think this article from Epi-Log on Epicurious.com pretty much speaks for itself. While not known for being a fan of Tabasco, or their products, this might almost be worth forking out a few bucks:
Chile Head Alert: Limited-Edition Tabasco Sauce
by Megan O. Steintrager
on 05/22/08 at 06:40 PM
All you hot sauce collectors out there might [...]

Well, our shipment of pepper plants finally arrived today from Cross Country Nurseries. For several years now, we’ve made the decision to grow our peppers in containers. Part of that stems from not having a decent garden space to grow them in actual soil in the ground. For one thing, the soil [...]

Bret Vitek of Jungle Jim’s has provided an update of the list of vendors for the upcoming Weekend of Fire show this coming August. To see this list, you can click HERE.
Also, the current economy has had at least one hot & spicy casualty…the ZestFest Miami show originally scheduled for this coming June has [...]

It’s been a few months since I’ve written about the chemistry of capsaicin, but it’s this sort of science geek stuff about hot and spicy that will probably end up in a research paper I intend to do in the next few months. Check this article out from the most recent online edition of [...]

Ah yes, Fire Foods. I got to see this company start up way back when via The Hot Pepper forums. I’ve watched it grow and I must say they are really starting to grow fast. I’m finally getting a taste of what this fine company has to offer, thanks Woody!
Fire Foods Reserve Ingredients: Fruit juice, [...]

CaJohns‘ new chili parlour received quite a great write-up in the most recent edition of the Columbus Alive paper, which we happily bring to your attention. We’ve nibble on some of the selection, and they are all that and a bag of (tortilla) chips:
Chili-out
By G.A. Benton
When a hot sauce at the terrific North Market [...]