All right next weekend it is time once again for the “biggest gathering of chileheads in the world!” I have a few questions. Who will be there? Are you an attendee or an exhibitor? Have you been there before? What do you recommend? If you are an exhibitor, what new products are you offering or [...]

The saga of this new pepper, the Naga Viper, is fascinating to watch unfold. Time will tell if this pepper hangs around and becomes part of the mainstream pepper “establishment,” but for now it’s a cool new fad. This article was noteworthy if for no other reason than the subject of the article, Ronnie Walley, [...]

The world has a new hottest chile pepper, the Naga Viper, which apparently comes from a greenhouse in Cumbria in England. Check out this article from the online UK DailyMail to see this article. Wonder who will be the first to make a Naga Viper hot sauce? Place your bets now, folks. Neither Mexico nor [...]

Wanna set your food on fire? We use A LOT of dry spices mixes at home in our cooking. Over the years, we have purchased quite a few commercially-made spice mixes, and some have been better than others. In general, the spicier ones tend to be mostly one kind of spicy pepper (habanero) and are [...]

   Well, the scorching days of summer have past. Their is a definite chill in the air in the mornings and evenings. As a matter of fact I need to cover my tomatoes and chiles tonight because it is supposed to frost. Fall has truly arrived in the Pacific North West. Some people dread the [...]

After getting enough wondering looks as to why I was up so early, I decided to go on over to one of the tents that I got fed at yesterday to see if there was anything left over for breakfast (people really should learn to read the “Don’t Feed The Passow” sign that was posted [...]

After recovering from my Smoked Jolokia experience I wondered the campgrounds once again, stumbling across someone displaying the posters for the past years of Open Fields. I didn’t realize this, but a very handy designer makes spoof posters for each of the years. This year was Harry Podder and had Jim Campbell with a Habanero [...]

After a decent night of rest, I woke up to a slightly cold and very foggy morning. As groggy as I was, I was quite eager to get out there because today was the true start of the event. But first thing’s first…coffee. A foggy morning in the fields. I went to my car (aptly [...]

Every year, a select few chili-heads get invited to the “Woodstock” of the pepper realm, Jim Campbell’s Open Fields. This year I saved up, requested time off, got the directions (it’s a secret location somewhere south of Indianapolis, Indiana…the place doesn’t even have an address it’s so secret), packed my bags and gassed up. At [...]

I’m finally getting an opportunity to do something I’ve been dieing to do for a while. Last year I missed out on going to Jim Campbell’s Open Fields. For those that don’t know, Jim Campbell and his pepper farm has supplied a lot of the major industry players with peppers for their products.