Chili Pepper News

According to research published in the British Medical Journal, people who eat spicy foods six to seven times a week, reduce their chance of death by 14 percent. Um, what? You can give death the middle figure if you eat foods spiced from bottles depicting the grim reaper? No. That’s not the case. You will die. It’s probably something you should get your head around at some point. We hope it’s not anytime soon, but it’s going to happen. That’s life even if you choose to believe that cryogenic freezing can prolong your life; you’re going to die.

Chili Peppers and the Presidential Elections  It’s voting day. Well, it is for a lot of people. Early voters and mail-in voters cast their ballots already. By the time you read this, you may have already been to and from the polls. If not, you should probably get out there are do it. Every vote counts. Seriously.

Every month is a good month for chili peppers. We know it. You know it. But, November is an especially good month for chilies this year. Well, chilies, hot sauces, pepper purees, you name it. November is, after all, National Pepper Month. And, we’re going to take that as chili pepper. Why shouldn’t we? Chili peppers are a lot more useful than the spice you throw onto eggs. Adding chili peppers and hot sauces transforms just about any dish from blasé to blazingly impressive with very little effort on your part.

It’s a little difficult to believe there was once a time when hot sauces weren’t on everyone’s lips. We mean that literally; you know – as they drool and sweat through the glorious pain that comes with capsaicin. And, we also mean that figuratively – as in the fact that people can’t stop talking about super hot sauces. This isn’t just an American thing either. You know all about Tesco’s supermarket in the UK selling reaper peppers. You’ve also heard about the South African chicken chain, Nando’s, creating some blazing peri peri burgers. What you may not know is that...