We have seen relatively few articles about how to really get in to spicy foods, so this blog-style entry from Lifehacker touches on this topic rather nicely:
Build a Gradual Tolerance to Spicy Foods
Needing to have your food kept extra mild at all times can curtail your enjoyment of new foods, as well as your dinner [...]

America…land of the free, home of the spicy? It’s a bona fide fact that we here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. are riding the hot and spicy foods bandwagon like never before. This great article from the National Public Radio online embraces that reality:
U.S. Is A Spicier Nation (Literally) Since [...]

Big Daddy’s Ass is Still Burning. Thank goodness for that. We really need to get our friend and uber-Texan Chuk Hell to send us some of his stuff. This article from the Houston Press talks a little more about a recent update from Big Daddy.
When you decide to put Ass Burn in [...]

I always get a kick of the “outsider looking in” that becomes a convert to what most of us have known for years: hot sauce is good. Further confirmation, and an interesting discussion, can be found in this cool article from the online version of The Feast out of Nashua, New Hampshire:

To pepperheads, the [...]

You be the judge. This article from the Grand Junction Free Press examines one person’s take on it:
Gastronomical Insanity
Lee Mathis
Insanely Decadent
Recently, I have been somewhat obsessed with something — something that either people have no clue about or look at me like I am a little off my culinary rocker.
While I had heard of [...]

WACO, Texas (Ivanhoe Newswire) — you can find them in Mexican and Asian cuisine, hot sauce, medicines, even tear gas … Chile peppers put the heat in all kinds of products these days. Measured on a standard called the Scoville heat scale, they range from zero for a mild bell pepper to a scorching 100,000 [...]

We found this article pretty amusing, and you can find the entire entertaining read in an article in the most recent edition of the online Washington Post. Let’s just say that if you are a teetotaler, this article may not be for you. Try this:
Doctored with Pepper
By Jason Wilson
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Chili heads, [...]

We read this article recently and wanted to bring it to your attention. This was one of the salsa brands we tried as part of the recent contest for the Weekend of Fire show this past August. We actually tried the Nice N Hot salsa, not the Severe, but it was really damn [...]

One of our favorite New England hot sauce folks, David Ashley of the Ashley Food Company, has a really awesome night of hot and spicy food coming this Thursday. We’ll be doing some early trick-or-treating, but if you’re in the Waltham, MA area you should check this out:
Extreme Hot Sauce Creator Joins Forces With [...]

This is a rather wry take on one person’s journey into business as a hot sauce entreprenuer, as detailed in a recent article from the online edition of the Boston Globe:

Entrepreneur seasoned for success
By Joel Brown
Globe Correspondent / October 15, 2009
NEWBURYPORT – First things first. Don’t call it a hot sauce.
“Call it a gourmet [...]