The Hot Zone Online

Entries for June, 2008

Zakk Wylde Collectible hot sauces to be released soon

I want to give you heads up on some other things. We are almost ready to kick off Ozzy’s Axeman and Black Label Society founder Zakk Wylde’s Berserker Sauce Line, as I have really gotten to know the World of Zakk in the last 6 months, I have to tell you he is one real [...]

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Hot Zone Online Pepper Garden update – June 21

This year’s growing season is truly off and running, and we couldn’t be more pleased with how the container garden is coming along with their growth. This wasn’t without a few hiccups, though. We’ve had a couple of casualties, which we hadn’t had in years past. As has been our tradition, we [...]

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A little info on the Austin Hot Sauce Festival

Just a little prequel of the information to come, but this article from the American Chronicle gives a little bit of information about the Austin Hot Sauce Festival, which will be happening again this coming August. More on that later….
Austin Hot Sauce Festival
Ki Gray
June 10, 2008
With almost two decades under its belt, the Austin [...]

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Hot sauce helps fund scholarships

This is an awesome story from the Palo Alto Online that reports on a group of firefighters selling their homemade hot sauce to help fund school scholarships. Wow, but do firefighters have some big hearts or what?! It’s a pretty reasonable cost, so go to their website and see if you’d like to [...]

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The Hot Zone Online welcomes the Head Winder Licker

Well, the blogosphere obviously needed one more hot and spicy food blog! From one of the sick and twisted minds who brought us Taste The Fear, we now have Head Winder Licker. HWL has actually been up and running since late March of 2008, but is just now seeming to steamroller into a [...]

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KFC Trademark Infringement

We’ve all seen it advertised on T.V. or when you drive by a local Kentucky Fried Chicken. “Smoky Chipotle” Crispy Chicken is now for sale from Memorial Day through Labor Day and is the third KFC recipe introduced in 68 years (Original Recipe and Extra Crispy are the other two). This is great news you [...]

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Capsaicin, the helpful spice

A little snippet from the Cleveland.com website about “helpful” spices in your diet, of which capsaicin would be one of them. The medicinal uses of capsaicin are well-known to some, but not enough so to the general public. Check this out:
The active ingredient that lends a hot pepper its bite is capsaicin, another [...]

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Getting Sauced: Prelude to the Weekend of Fire

Bret Vitek of Jungle Jim sent us this really hip article from a recent edition of the City Beat e-zine out of Cincinnati. We love this guy’s take on the hot sauces, and it’s an entertaining read. Check it out:
Getting Sauced
A survivor’s tale of hot sauce sampling
By Mike Breen
If you’ve ever signed up [...]

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Hawaiian Passion Habanero Vinaigrette by Arturo’s Hot Flavors of Hawaii

This sauce comprises the last of the original four sauces from Hot Sauce Hawaii that I was privileged enough to be offered the chance to review. This sauce, the Hawaiian Passion Habanero Vinaigrette is truly unique, even amongst the other sauces from the same line.
Ingredients: balsamic vinegar, olive oil, habaneros, jalapenos, mustard [...]

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Some bad news for Uncle Brutha

Those in and around the District of Columbia will apparently have to go elsewhere to get their fix of hot sauce from Uncle Brutha. This article from the Washington City Paper pretty much spells it out:
Uncle Brutha’s Closing
Posted by Angela Valdez on Jun. 3, 2008, at 2:45 pm
Two years ago, when Brennan Proctor opened [...]

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