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Passow’s 2010 Weekend Of Fire Trip Part 5 – Sunday

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.
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Passow’s 2010 Weekend Of Fire Trip Part 4 – Defcon Deathmatch

After the events of Saturday came to a close, there was just one more contest for the first day of the 2010 Weekend of Fire… The Defcon Deathmatch.
Now, we all know of what goes on with this event, so instead of doing a blow by blow, I’ll just let the pictures do the talking. The [...]

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Open Fields 2010: Complete information for the event

Announcing the 4th annual, and LAST, Open Fields Hot Sauce Contest!
Saturday, September 25th 2010
As you may already be aware, this will be the last year of Jim Campbell’s annual Open Fields event. You know… the one held in a “secret location” somewhere in Indiana and featured several times on the Food Network.
As a means [...]

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Passow’s 2010 Weekend Of Fire Trip Part 3 – Saturday Part 2

Continuing from part 2, we had just gotten off the Jungle Jim’s monorail. It was time to wonder around some more. We ended up back at Defcon’s booth where he was handing out samples of his new product, Defcon ZERO Sludge on little glow sticks. Chem and I both tried it and like usual, John [...]

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Passow’s 2010 Weekend Of Fire Trip Part 2 – Saturday Part 1

Continuing from part 1, here’s the second part of my review of the 2010 Weekend of Fire at Jungle Jims. We arrived early to the event to wonder around JJ’s since Chem had never been. Of course, we hit up the beer section first.
Following a lengthy stay drooling over all the fermented wonders we took [...]

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Passow’s 2010 Weekend Of Fire Trip Part 1 – Friday

Welcome to my first part of the review for the 2010 Weekend of Fire at Jungle Jims. I had some high hopes for this years event because there was more promotion for this year which would me a larger crowd. That coupled with what was being promoted as 55 booths this year AND loads of [...]

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Still recovering from the Weekend of Fire

After a weekend’s worth of hot sauces and other spicy fare, I am somehow still recovering a bit from this past weekend’s festivities. It’s not that anything in particular was overly stressful, but between all the travel, eating, and shmoozing…I am still just plain tired.
Above you can see a horseradish root. I publish [...]

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Sunday morning hot links, DEFCON style

Quite simply, the DEFCON Deathmatch has become the premiere event of the whole Jungle Jim’s “Weekend of Fire” extravaganza. Last night was no different…and thanks to Scott Roberts for recording this great video of the event.
Also, there is a nice summation article in today’s Cincinnati.com about all the contests as well:
Jungle Jim’s turns up [...]

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Passow and Crew Are Heading to the Weekend of Fire

Wow. Absolutely amazing. Is it really that time again? Hold on, I’ve got my calendar right here. Yep. There it is. We are only a few days away from this years Weekend of Fire at Jungle Jim’s in Cincinnati, Ohio.
I thought I’d do a quick little post informing those who are not in the know [...]

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Post-Weekend of Fire show Open House at CaJohns Fiery Foods

We would like to invite the attendees and vendors at the Weekend of Fire, and everyone else for that matter, to stop by and visit our new facility at 816 Green Crest Drive in Westerville, Ohio (43081) on Monday after the show. We will be giving tours and serving up a lunch prepared by Chef [...]

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