ZestFest Midwest gets a much-needed alliance to help power the show. You can see the full transcript of the press release here: Zestfest Midwest press FINAL

The New York City Hot Sauce Expo was a huge success with huge risk. There is an inherent cautiousness with a new industry show coming from a variety of people; these being organizers, vendors, media and visitors. The organizer was new, in this instance Steve Seabury from High River Sauces. The venue was new both [...]

Rather than bore our legions of readers with our pithy comments, we’ll just offer up a bunch of pictures from this past event. If you did not attend….well, you SHOULD have. Much fun had by all, from attendees to vendors. Hell, even the bloggers had fun!

The Screaming Mi Mi’s. Louisiana Style: 3rd Lizard’s on the bayou, 2nd Volcanic Peppers Chocolate Lightening, 1st CaJohn Firehouse Fruit Based: 3rd Hellfire Hot Sauces Blueberry Hell, 2nd Frankie V’s Serrano Hot Sauce, 1st Dirty Dicks Hot Pepper Sauce Fruit Based Hot: 3rd Big Fat’s 708, 2nd Race City Sauce Works The Awakening, 1st Hellfire [...]

NEW VENDOR – Spicey Rooster BBQ Company How did you get started with your business? Chef Randy Combs has been “cooking his whole life.” A career of cooking and catering ultimately melded into producing his viagra price own hot & spicy products, each of which took months of time to create. Which of your products [...]

ESTABLISHED VENDOR – Crazy Uncle Jester How long have you been in business? The company that is Crazy Uncle Jester’s has been a commercial entity for the past 5 years, but Jeff Stevenson (the CUJ grand poobah) has been making products on some level for over 21 years. How has your business/clientele changed since you [...]

ESTABLISHED VENDOR – Ole Ray’s Sauces How long have you been in business? 12 years How has your business/clientele changed since you started? When Ole Ray first started, it viagra sales was with a handful of BBQ sauces and making only $11K per year on sales. With persistence and a constantly growing line of BBQ [...]

ESTABLISHED VENDOR – Black Swamp Gourmet How long have you been in business? 3.5 years How has your business/clientele changed since you started? For Black Swamp, this whole journey into “the business” has been one of learning and growth. After just a few years, they have expanded from the one product they started with to [...]

ESTABLISHED VENDOR – Bigfat’s Hot Sauce How long have you been in business? 3.5 years How has your business/clientele changed since you started? Bigfat’s has “lived vicariously,” and has learned from ideas shared by other manufacturers in the hot & spicy food business. You can’t argue with the results. The clientele seems to buy cialis [...]

ESTABLISHED VENDOR – Deano’s Jalapenos How long have you been in buy propecia online business? Since 2008/2009, when the business started through Doehne’s restaurant, The Cactus Cafe. How has your business/clientele changed since you started? They are shipping more pallets than boxes of product, and are now improving their demographic by going with different flavors. [...]