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Peppers of Key West launches a new website.

Peppers of Key West is pleased to announce the launch of our new retail website.  Our central aim has been to improve the user…
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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…
Hot Sauce Diaries, The History of Hot Sauce

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…
Hot Sauce Diaries, The Science of Hot Sauce

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…
Health Benefits of Hot Sauce, Hot Sauce Diaries

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…
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Hot Sauce Diaries: Satan’s Ghost

I’m not so sure I’m ready for number 8. Perhaps with the hurricane making its way through Key West, Pete and the folks at…
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Hot Sauce Diaries: Crazy Jerry’s Mustard Gas

Lucky Number 7 for the HSD. We’re going with a mustard sauce for this one. Crazy Jerry’s Mustard Gas to be specific. The first…
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Hot Sauce Diaries: Green Lava Hot Sauce

Hot Sauce Diaries numero seis. Today, we’re eating one of the best sellers at Peppers: Green Lava Hot Sauce from Catch a Fire. I always…
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A study of hot sauce consumers

Some of you participated in a study not too long ago and helped out a student. Thanks for doing that and proving, once again,…
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Hot and Spicy Peanut Butter

Number 5 for the diaries. Pete is sending me a big box o’heat, so I’m looking forward to trying some new stuff. In the…
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Rising Sun Apple Cinnamon Chipotle Hot Sauce

#3 brings us to Rising Sun Cinnamon Chipotle Hot Sauce from Rising Sun Pepper Farm. I expected this to be a mild sauce, after…
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Crazy Jerry’s Habanero Stuffed Olives

Here we are with #2, Crazy Jerry’s Habanero Stuffed Olives. My initial thought is that these are going to be good. I like olives,…
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Welcome to the Hot Sauce Diaries

Welcome to “The Hot Sauce Diaries.” Introductions and an explanation of “The Hot Sauce Diaries” are probably in order to get things started. First,…
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Spicy Sweet Berry Sauce

They are being nice to me to get things started, I think. #1 is Spicy Sweet Berry Sauce from Robert Rothschild Farm. It’s based…
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Make Your Own Chicken Wing Sauce

One of the best things about chicken wings is that you don’t have to go to a restaurant to enjoy them. Chicken wing sauce…
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Our New Website

Hello Everyone! We are really happy to announce that our new website is up and running. Over the next few weeks, we’re working hard…