The Hot Zone Online

Entries for October, 2008

Cool new stuff available from Blue’s BBQ

Steve Burnham is one of our esteemed writers on this blog. When not making music or stuff in his smoker, he also makes some pretty darn good hot sauce (see Steve’s Blue’s BBQ website.) He’s been recently re-vamping his hot sauce labels and also has a swanky-cool new t-shirt as well. Check [...]

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Heat Avenger hot sauce by Condimentman

Combining the geek sensibilities of comic book heroes and the allure of a good sauce made this product a no-brainer as to one that I just had to review. This is yet another hot sauce featuring mustard as a dominant player, which has seemingly been a running theme in my reviews over the past [...]

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Passow Climbs Mt. Adams

Got this interesting bottle of salsa directly from Mt. Adams Trading Company at the Weekend of Fire. Bill Hyslop, owner, tells me that this salsa recipe has been in the family for five generations and they “try to deseed every chipotle pepper in the salsa. By doing this, you get as much flavor as possible”. [...]

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I’ll take 5000 jars of mustard to go, please

The Mt. Horeb Mustard museum is home to more mustards than you can shake a stick at…literally. We like ‘em because a lot of them are of the spicy variety. Looks like they’re getting ready for some new digs:

It’s official: the Mustard Museum will move to Middleton, Wisconsin, in October 2009. News of [...]

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All good hot sauces gotta come from somewhere, right?

Everyone who’s ever made their own hot sauce at home has an interesting story on how that came about. This story, from Mississippi’s Rankin Ledger, talks about just that:

Making hot sauce is a hot and laborious task
By Justin Fritscher
Reporter
Being a Fritscher comes with its perks – as does with any family. But maybe one [...]

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Pepperfire Foods takes home more awards

For Immediate Release

Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc. Honoured as one of Canada’s 2008 Top Ten Food Innovators.

Food in Canada Magazine recognizes Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc. as one of Canada’s Top Ten Food Innovators for 2008.
Rigaud, QC, October 2008 Tina Brooks, VP Marketing for Brooks Pepperfire Foods announced today that Brooks Pepperfire Foods has been named as [...]

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The Hot Zone Online goes west again

One visit to the Evergreen State done, one now to go. My post-residency job search continues in the Pacific Northwest with a pair of interviews in the Puget Sound area. So, my tired and jet-lagged self will be landing tomorrow morning in sunny Seattle/Tacoma where I’ll start my 3-day adventure in the land [...]

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KP’s Specialty Pepper Products

Spicy snacks that are actually both good and spicy are hard to come by, but Kentucky’s own KP’s Specialty Pepper Products has a formula for products that have every chance at becoming hugely popular. Makers of some novel spicy nuts and a few hot sauces, we became acquainted with them at this past Jungle [...]

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Chile Pepper Magazine’s chief brings home top honors

Friend of the blog, Gretchen VanEsselstyn of Chile Pepper Magazine, recently won top honors at a media-only contest called Taste the Trend: Pork Recipe Challenge with her deliciously decadent Double-Decker Schnitzel Sliders with Hot Pink Slaw. Seemingly perfect for fall menus, you can use this to spice-up any Oktoberfest celebration with this tasty German-inspired [...]

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Ol’ Gringo does it with style, now in Ft. Worth

Small business

BY JOHN-LAURENT TRONCHE
October 06, 2008
Fort Worth is no stranger to spices – what, with its appetite for fiery Tex-Mex, annual ZestFest spicy foods celebration and abundance of Mexican markets featuring all manner of peppers, from Anaheim to Tabasco.
And Fort Worth-based Ol’ Gringo Chili Co. is doing its part to keep the city’s reputation solidly [...]

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