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Hot Peppers Are Less Damaged By Plant Blight
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ShareLondon, Feb 5 (IANS) A plant blight that affects many crop species worldwide, causes less damage to pepper crops of the hotter varieties rather than low heat peppers. The research team of Mohammed B. Tahboub (post-doctoral researcher), Soumaila Sanogo (plant pathologist and team leader), Paul W. Bosland (chile pepper breeder), and Leigh Murray (statistician) set out to determine whether or not the severity of Phytophthora blight would be greater in low-heat than in hot chile peppers...
Review - Dean and Deluca Marinades, Part 1 - Vietnamese and Moroccan
For this two-part review, I'll take a dip into a couple of Dean & Deluca's fine marinades - the flavorful Vietnamese Marinade, which contains a mix of chilies, lime juice, mint and cilantro, and the scrumptious-smelling Moroccan Marinade, which has old world spices with lemon zest, ginger, mango and mint....
iMob Online Friend Codes List
iMob Online is the popular new online massively multi-player mafia game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. If you're interested in getting friend codes or invitation codes to build up your mob, just start entering iMob Online invite codes from the following page....
More Than 1 Billion Wings to Be Eaten During Super Bowl
More chicken wing-related news: Super Bowl weekend is the biggest time of year for sales of wings. According to the National Chicken Council, more than 1 billion chicken wings will be consumed by Super Bowl viewers this year.
OpenX Cutter - Irony in a Plastic Package
The Amazing OpenX cutting tool makes opening those pesky plastic packages a breeze. But just what is the OPenX packaged in?
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The Great Fast Food Wings Taste Test
Most of us know that it's hard to get genuinely great wings from a fast food joint, but what do you do when you're in a pinch and are in a wing "emergency"? Well, SeriousEats.com compares chicken wings from the large national fast food chains and tells you what they think are best. Covers KFC, Popeye's, Domino's Pizza, Papa John's, and Pizza Hut...
America's Love Affair With Chili Peppers Grows Hotter
WASHINGTON A nation on the rebound from its long affair with comfort food has a hot new love: chili pepper.
Once worshipped by Incas and Olmecs, chili now is revered by surging numbers of Americans with heat-seeking palates and by food marketers who are keen to stimulate them.
Together, they've made chili the second-most-craved flavor in the United States after chocolate, according to Paul Rozin, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist who's studied the appeals of both foods...
The Heart Attack Grill
I hear about this restaurant a couple of years ago on the radio, and just recently stumbled upon this video segment from the CBS News Sunday Morning show. This is the Heart Attack Grill:
The Heart Attack Grill, home of the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries, is located in Chandler, Arizona.
CowTV Visits CaJohn's Fiery Foods HQ
CowTV,
Central Ohios Video Magazine, recently visited the Columbus headquarters of spicy food makers CaJohn's:
Best Google Street View EVER
Don't believe me? Go to the actual Google Maps link and click on "Street View" in the info bubble.
Review - Boar's Head Jalapeno Pepper Sauce
Boar's Head Hot & Spicy Jalapeno Pepper Sauce is among the most lackluster attempts at a hot sauce I've ever tasted. There's always a horrible-tasting novelty sauce that exists as being nothing but a pure gimmick, but for a "legitimate" product it really ranks low on the fiery foods totem pole.
Internet Numbers in 2008
Royal Pingdom has published stats regarding internet usage in 2008. If you were dying to know facts such as how many e-mails were send per day last year (answer: on average, 210 billion), how many blog posts were created all year (329 million), and what percentage of internet users browsed with Firefox (20.7%), and check out this article.
Moisture Is The Enemy For Great Buffalo Wings
According to lore, Teressa Bellissimo was just trying to satisfy her hungry son and his friends. So on that 1964 night in Buffalo, N.Y., she tossed leftover chicken parts into the fryer at Anchor Bar, then doused them with hot sauce. More than four decades later, the Buffalo Wing has become an American culinary icon.
But those years haven't always been kind. All manner of over-fried and stale-tasting frozen fowl limbs get passed off as the real deal. Some are so bad they are almost an insult to the beer and football they pair so nicely with.
"People are like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter. They are just chicken wings,"' and they buy bad chicken, says Food Network Iron Chef Michael Symon.
But bad chicken will produce bad chicken wings, no matter how good of a cook you are, Symon says...
Review - Pringles Extreme Flavors Kickin' Cheddar Potato Chips
Listen to how Pringles advertises these products:
"Pringles Extreme Flavors arent for the faint of heart. Brave one bite, and you'll be hooked on the aggressive taste that just won't quit."
"Kickin' Cheddar - This cheddar's got attitude, and it doesn't take orders. So buckle up and get ready for a wild ride."
Wow! Upon hearing this, I couldn't wait to crunch down on one of the products in Pringles' fairly new Extreme Flavors lineup, the Kickin' Cheddar potato chips. Me and my tender little heart were ready for the ride of a lifetime! I have been a huge fan of their Cheese 'Ums (now renamed Cheddar Cheese) since I was the age of 12, so if Kickin' Cheddar was as half as good, I'd die a happy man!
Robert Rodriguez's 10-Minute Cooking School: Sin City Breakfast Tacos
Robert Rodriguez is one of the coolest filmmakers around, for several reasons: his awesome flicks (Planet Terror, Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn, and El Mariachi, just to name a few); his mastery of digital technology and editing; the fact that he writes, directs, edits, and musically scores most of his projects all by himself; and his love of adding loads of DVD extras, which include his "10 Minutes" series. One such DVD short was this 10-Minute Cooking School included with the Sin City disc, which featured Rodriquez creating mouth-watering breakfast tacos. Enjoy!
