Press for Ashley Food Co.

Boston-Bred Sauce is Cat's Meow

Boston-Bred Sauce is Cat's Meow

Taste Trend -Boston Herald, Wednesday, May 13, 1998 A drop of Mad Cat Hot Sauce first pussyfoots across your tongue, then makes you yowl.  If you like hot sauce, the slow-building burn makes you want another bite.  And another.  The new, habanero-based sauce is a spin-off from the Dedham-based Mad Dog label.

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Cook's Illustrated Names Mad Dog Original BBQ Sauce "Best In America"

Cook's Illustrated Names Mad Dog Original BBQ Sauce "Best In America"

Designer sauces come out on top in a dual taste test, while sauces heavy in starch and corn syrup bring up the rear.

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Boston Herald: Hot-Sauce maker goes for the Burn

Boston Herald: Hot-Sauce maker goes for the Burn

Boston Herald, Sunday, August 20, 1995 Not surprisingly, it’s called Inferno and it’s searing sauce maker David Ashley’s name onto the culinary map.  

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Pepper people: Tabasco’s for wimps

Pepper people: Tabasco’s for wimps

Boston Herald April 28, 1995 The alleged crime: assault.  The setting: a late-night Denny’s in Lebanon, N. H.  The weapon: Tabasco sauce. Some like it hot.

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