Eating hot sauce can produce a variety of physiological reactions, like a tingling (or pain) in the lips, tongue and throat. Other common reactions…
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Chili Cookoff – If you can read this whole article without laughing, there is something wrong with you!!
If you are a long-time member of our newsletter family, you may remember this story from a long time ago. As it is tax…
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Hot Sauce Brand Loyalty
Peppers of Key West 11 Pack As the son of hot sauce lovers and immigrants from Hungary, I noticed as far back as…
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Resurgence of the slow cooker!
When you think of a slow cooker as a means of meal readiness, do you think of the 1970’s mother standing in front of…
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The Correlation Between Hops and Heat
Correlation Between Hops, Heat and Hot Sauce Maybe not specifically with Samuel Adams products but most of us have been preforming this test…
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The Fischer & Weiser Spotlight
Fischer & Weiser’s motto is “from the farm to your family table”, what sauce manufacturer can get any better than that! Fisher & Weiser…
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Introducing… The Chipotle Pepper
Pronunciation: The chipotle is pronounced: chee-POHT-lay. A common mispronunciation is when it’s said as bottle but starting with chi (chip-ottle). Chipotle is also pronounced…
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The Ugly Food Movement
There is a food movement in the states that is slowly gaining traction called the “Ugly Food Movement”. In our politically correct world…
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Peppers Are The Cure For What Ails You!
Not only do most hot sauces taste good, they are good for you. Capsaicin, what makes chilies and the sauces and salsas that contain…
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Introducing… The Habanero Pepper
Pronunciation: The habanero is pronounced: hah bahn air oh, or, ah bahn air oh, without the leading ‘h’ sound. You’ll hear it said both…
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Cure Those Winter Blues
It’s five a.m. and if you are not rolling around you’re staring at the ceiling trying to get to sleep. You can’t you’re sniffling,…
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Jerky is the New Craze!
America is a nation of snackers and Americans have recently started moving away from potato chips and cookies and turning to healthy snacks, or…
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A Brief History of Early Key West
Key West was an island called Cayo Hueso – or the English translation of Island of Bones – by early Spanish travelers and has…
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Trinidad Moruga Scorpion- What?
Peppers of Key West has found that Chile experts identify Trinidad Moruga Scorpion as world’s hottest! Experts at New Mexico’s State University’s Chile Pepper…
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History of Spices-Red Pepper & Cayenne
Today we take spices for granted. There they are, always handy on the spice shelf, as ordinary as our daily newspaper; and if we…
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NASCAR & HOT SAUCE: GREEN GREEN GREEN
If there is one thing that race fans take as seriously as their favorite drivers, it’s the food that their favorite track has made…
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That Devil made me do it!
Dave’s Gourmet Insanity Sauce Private Reserve 2009 Limited Edition – his first (and subsequently most collectible) using the Indian Jolokia Pepper, also known as…
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Some like it hot. Really hot!
Maybe it’s that sense of danger that reels you in at first. The crazy name, the wild picture slapped on the bottle. Before you…
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Hot Sauce – Good for What Ails You!
Not only do most hot sauces taste good, they are good for you. Capsaicin, what makes chiles and the sauces and salsas that contain…
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Daves Adjustable Hot Sauce Saved me from the Amazon
You might think that my last experience with the Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce made me quit, seeing as how it’s been a while since…
