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NYC Hot Sauce Expo Aims at Guinness Book of Records with Smokin Ed’s Carolina Reaper Challenge

New York City Hot Sauce ExpoFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 28th,  2014 

Guinness Book of Records –  Smokin Ed’s Carolina Reaper Challenge

New York’s own High River Sauces proudly presents the 2nd Annual New York City Hot Sauce Expo on March 29th and 30th . This year’s Expo will host only the best artisanal sauce companies in the United States. Last year’s Expo proved to be a capsaicin rush for all who attended including ticket holders and vendors a like. This year organizers are turning up the heat with spicy drinks, craft beers from Laginitas Brewery, insane eating challenges, hot sauce tastings and the prestigious Screaming Mi Mi Award Show.

One of the highlights of the Expo is on Sunday, March 30th at 4 PM EST. The Puckerbutt Pepper Company “Presents the Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper Eating Challenge” which the Guinness Book of Records will be on hand to judge and declare the winner with the World Record for eating the most Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper Peppers in 60 seconds. This eating challenge will be one of the most anticipated events in fiery foods and professional eating industries combined. Many will enter but only one will survive the wrath.

“Of all the shows we have scheduled for the year, the…

Screaming Mi Mi Awards Are Back at the 2014 NYC Hot Sauce Expo

New York City Hot Sauce Expo FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January, 21st 2013

Screaming Mi Mi Awards – NYC Hot Sauce Expo

If You Make The Best…..Then Win The Best. The 2nd Annual New York City Hot Sauce Expo presented by High River Sauces sets the stage for one of the most pristine honors to achieve within the Hot Sauce Industry, the mighty Screaming Mi Mi Awards. There is a total of 13 categories to enter including by popular demand the addition of Salsa, Wing and BBQ Sauce. The entries are blind tasted and judged by the brightest names in the NYC food industry. The esteemed panel of judges consists of celebrity TV Chefs, food critics from newspapers & magazines, cookbook editor, food bloggers and some promising new chefs in some of the finest restaurants New York City has to offer. This year’s Screaming Mi Mi Award winners will get their winning sauce picked up by Peppers, one of the largest hot sauce distributors in the country. “We have seen from…

What’s Been Going On With Scott Lately

What's Scott Been Up To?Seems like I’ve been doing this blogging thing for so long that this is the third or fourth time I’ve gone through a “busy”/”personal” period.

First, I’d like to preface all this by saying that things are generally great. There are no huge crisis that I’m wading through. I’m not planning to quit the blogging game or reviewing products in the foreseeable future.

It’s just that I’m generally busy. No, correction…make that absolutely buried. Between holding down two jobs and being a full-time single dad, it’s not easy finding a lot of time to grill, cook, taste new products, let alone write and podcast about them. A good portion of my daily meals are of the super-simple/quickie/fast food variety. I sort of envy those in the fiery foods blogging community with far fewer responsibilities, affording them to have a more prolific output. Don’t get me wrong; I’m more than happy for the terrific coverage they provide, but the (friendly) competitive nature in me wants to keep up, and it’s killing me to keep my spicy food projects on the back burner!

NMSU’s Chile Pepper Institute set to bring the heat with 2014 New Mexico Chile Conference

Chile-Pepper-Conference-2014January 17, 2014
WRITER: Justin Bannister, (575) 646-5981jbannist@nmsu.edu
CONTACT: Danise Coon, 575-646-3028hotchile@nmsu.edu

The 2014 New Mexico Chile Conference will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces. The annual conference is hosted by New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute and features practical solutions for chile growers, processors and producers.

“The New Mexico Chile Conference is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the new discoveries in chile pepper research,” said Paul Bosland, Chile Pepper Institute director and chair of the conference. “The New Mexico Chile Conference is the world’s largest conference dedicated to chile peppers, and we are pleased to showcase NMSU’s research discoveries to the world.”

What is the POP in Your Hot Sauce?

CaJohns Pop - Percentage of Peppers

Contact: Lisa Newkirk
CaJohns Fiery Foods
Phone 614.418.0808
Fax 614.418.0800
lisa@cajohns.com
816 Green Crest Dr.
Westerville, OH 43081
CaJohns Fiery Foods

Press Release

What is the POP in your hot sauce?

In a time when others are racing to cultivate the hottest pepper and make the hottest sauce; one small batch hot sauce producer is asking—what about the flavor?

Westerville, OH, January 10, 2014: As the race to cultivate the hottest pepper continues, CaJohns Fiery Foods is encouraging consumers to look at how much actual pepper is in the hot sauce bottle. CaJohns Fiery Foods recently assessed their hot sauces for POP: percentage of pepper. Each recipe was evaluated and the results are posted on www.cajohns.com. ‘Our pepper mash sets us apart,’ stated John ‘CaJohn’ Hard. He credits the mash as the secret behind his success. When you start with fresh peppers instead of fermented mash &/or extract, the sauces explode with flavor and fire.

Here is a list of a few of our sauces…

Columbus North Market Fiery Foods Week Celebration

FIERY FOODS WEEK CELEBRATIONThe North Market’s Fiery Foods Festival Weekend in Columbus, Ohio has been one of the “best kept secrets” in the spicy food scene during its five or so years of it being held.

It’s been hosted by he lively North Market – a large indoor farmers market full of food merchants of all kinds – and has a more intimate and more quaint feel than typical larger trade shows held inside a convention center. That cozier feel, combined with some audience-pleasing food contests, have made this a “must-see” event for those who reside in the Midwest or the Mid-Atlantic states. It’s one of my personal favorite fiery foods shows of the year and I recommend any chilehead attend the North Market at least once.

Well, for the first time this festival is now a week-long celebration, having been expanded from a weekends-only event! This year it will be held from Monday, February 10, 2014 through Sunday, February 16, 2014.

The festival will feature a Chef’s Spicy Crock-pot Challenge, Amateur Chili Cook-off as well as Salsa, Hot Sauce, and Guacamole contests. Music and family activities will round out this week. More info will be available in the coming weeks; as a matter of fact, the North Market’s website page for the Fiery Foods Week Celebration promises that event details will be posted up on their official Facebook page after January 27.

Clever and Funny Hot Sauce and Spicy Snack Ads

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Even though the more seasoned chileheads might get a chuckle at the idea of relatively-mild products like Tabasco or Jalapeno-flavored Pringles as being sweat-inducing, you’ve got to hand it to the men and women at advertising agencies. Most of these advertisements are extremely clever and very memorable.

Hope you enjoy the following print ads for hot sauces and other spicy foods.