Following the upcoming Grillmaster’s Festival event at Columbus’ North Market, there will be a chileheads dinner following the Saturday slate of events. Dinner will be at 7pm at Fiesta Jalisco in Columbus. We want to place a reservation to assure us all a big table to ourselves, so please let us know your [...]

One of the great things about being a spicy food blogger is that there is no shortage of products that are available to you to review. One of the tough things about being a spicy food blogger is…the same reason.
Every time we go to an industry show, we get a little further [...]

No, Sandi, we ain’t calling you “old.” However, we did find a picture of a famous “Sandi” to use for you to introduce you again to our blog following. Sandi has graciously agreed to become one of our authors and to contribute her thoughts on some of the hot & spicy products we [...]

Zane & Zack’s World Famous Honey Co.’s “I dream of Hot Sauce” is up for auction! Packaged in a gorgeous 1973 Jim Beam”I Dream of Jeannie” bottle, the top is covered in gold and silver wax and the bottle is numbered and signed by the whole Zane & Zack’s crew. There are only 25 in [...]

The Hot Zone Online Shop
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We have a new logo, in case you haven’t seen it:

We decided to make it possible to get a groovy new t-shirt, hat, mug, and some other flair with our logo on it. There is certainly no shortage of cool chilehead-themed t-shirts and other apparel out there, [...]

It’s been a couple of days, but we have indeed returned from our Caribbean adventure on the “Spice of Life” cruise with our fellow chileheads. We will write more in the next few days, as we are still a little wiped out from the travel. Above you can see some of the swag [...]

As many of you know, we have had a long-standing relationship with Chile Pepper Magazine. Besides being subscribers for about twelve years in which we’ve saved our magazines like some men save their Playboy issues, we have also been contributors on an increasing basis. From the early days of our own relationship when [...]

After much searching, tweaking, and other messing about, The Hot Zone Online is launching the new version of our site as of today. While the format is essentially the same, the difference is a brand new style created by Scott Roberts of Captain Jolokia Web Design Services. While you are taking a look [...]

We don’t boast about much that we do with this blog, especially lately as we have been in a little bit of a rut with our writing. That said, we are immensely proud of our new article in Chile Pepper Magazine which is featured in the most recent issue. Above is the scan [...]

Better late than never is what they say. After waiting and waiting, Chili Pepper Magazine has finally published Joe and Linda’s write up of the 2009 Weekend of Fire. Check out the nice multi-page review complete with photos (by Jonathan Passow…that’s me…) on newsstands this month!