As many of you know, I could not attend last year’s Weekend of Fire at Jungle Jim’s because I had foot surgery. For the very same reason, in addition to two other little reasons, I was not able to attend bigger shows as well. This means I was out of the chilehead community [...]

I just finished another semester of grad school in counseling psychology. I’m happy to say that I will soon be doing my internships and will be finished by this time next year. I’m very excited about that. It’s been a long road with Joe in medical school then residency and myself in [...]

Just to have a little roll-call, here is a short bio on each of this blog’s writers:
Joe Levinson is a resident of Columbus, OH after spending many years living in both Kentucky and Florida. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Kentucky, and he’s a maniacal, rabid fan of UK basketball. Joe [...]

About time to update our mission statement…
So what’s this blog all about, anyway?
This blog was born March 26, 2005 out of a personal website that we had been doing for almost a year previous where we paid homage to our favorite hot sauce makers, showed off our hot sauce collection, and just generally ruminated about [...]

There are so many chileheads out there who make some quality hot sauces, salsas, spice mixes, and other spicy goodies that we want to give them some recognition as well. Whether you are just an amateur who makes stuff on a yearly basis or are an up and coming entrepreneur, we want to hear [...]

We’ve updated a few of the pics with our new snazzy digital camera. Thanks to Chris Tevis from Perfectly Pickled for offering a great deal on the lucite display racks. The daunting part of our collection is that we simply don’t have enough space to display them all. Roughly 60% of our [...]

We’ll try to keep this updated as we get more, or use up, new hot sauces in our collection. Some purely as for collecting purposes, but we keep 2-3 dozen different ones open at all times for our fiendish culinary uses.
9 1/2 Weeps Hot Passion Sauce
Acid Rain
Aji Amazona – Red
Alberta Crude
Amoy Chili & Garlic [...]

On some blogs, you can find out a little bit about the authors themselves. This is one of those blogs. Duh!
Linda was born in Chicago, IL and raised in the Chicago area until the age of 17, when the wind, cold and snow finally got to her. Sick of the snow, Linda [...]

The Hot Zone Online is pleased to offer two different options for people/companies who make and produce hot & spicy foods to get your stuff reviewed by us. These two choices are:
1. Featured Products column – This is the more extensive of the write-ups we do, stays online longer, and has more visibility. [...]

Our love of all things spicy goes way back, probably to a time when we realized that everything our mothers made for us when we were growing up was just way too bland. Our tastebuds led a bloodless coup and said �Food must be hot and spicy!� Who knew that there was a [...]