Nothing like another season of industry awards to let everyone know what products and companies have risen to the top and finally achieved recognition as the “best of the best” from amongst direct competition from their peers. For some, it is the critical recognition that goes along with, or possibly precedes, the commercial success [...]

October 17, 2011 – Houston, TX
SPICY SPECIALIST JAMES WRECK BRINGS WORLD’S HOTTEST PEPPER TO HISTORY CHANNEL
EAT MORE HEAT! Crew to be featured on the new show Hairy Bikers
The hottest chile in the world is the Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T”. On October 21st at 10/9c on the History Channel show ‘Hairy [...]

Picking up where part 2 left off, we now continue the photo review of the North Market’s 2011 Fiery Foods Festival in Columbus, Ohio. This part we take a look at the Jalapeno eating contest.
Joe and Linda pose for a nice photo over a beer.

Picking up where part 1 left off, we now continue the photo review of the North Market’s 2011 Fiery Foods Festival in Columbus, Ohio. This part we examine the Scornbread eating contest brought to you by the fine folks at Heartbreaking Dawns.
Al Buddah from I Love It Spicy gets a digital recording of the event.

Once again, it is time, for Passow’s review of this years installment of the North Market’s 2011 Fiery Foods Festival in Columbus, Ohio! This year will be quite different though, it’ll be a photo review instead of a in-depth analysis. So sit back, relax, and enjoy! We’ll start off with Part 1 of 6 which [...]

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 [...]

We’re just a few weeks away from the 2011 North Market Fiery Foods Show, and we here at the Hot Zone Online are looking for a little help. On the Saturday morning of the show at 10am, we are sponsoring the first-ever “Holy Guacamole” contest. Just like any contest, judges are needed to [...]

Now posted on their Facebook page, the North Market has finally posted the itinerary for this year’s Fiery Food Festival. This event hopes to be a major step forward with this event, as it is moving from one day to two days and will be incorporating more events and more vendors. There will [...]

Well, I returned from Open Fields 2010 with a horrible case of sunburn, a small bag of fresh peppers, and a sense of enjoyment from having a good time from camping out/socializing with some of my chilehead brethren for the last time in this particular venue. As many of you hopefully know, this was [...]

Welcome to part 5, this is the second and final day of the 2010 Weekend of Fire at Jungle Jims. In light of time, and the fact I’m now way behind on reviews. Here’s the pictures and a summary of the event.
The Bloggers Roundtable.