Perfect Sauces: Hoisin Habañero Sauce
Pick up a copy of The Art of the Perfect Sauce and make this hoisin habañero sauce tonight. You know you need more sauce recipes.
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Fear The Carolina Reaper: The Story Of The World's Hottest Pepper
When it comes to the world’s hottest peppers, it’s all about the Carolina Reaper…then everything else. Take a look at how exactly this pepper is bred.
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Oh Hey, An Interactive Chili Pepper Periodic Table!
If you think your chili pepper knowledge is above par, you may want to peruse this interactive chili pepper periodic table via Appliance City, an online British kitchen appliance retailer with a killer research department. That’s right, free shipping on your new fridge and a comprehensive guide detailing everything about 54 of the most beloved chili peppers around the world, complete…
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Cooking Yemenite? Here's Your Schug Recipe.
Israelis go crazy for simple, satisfying Yemenite food, and for good reason: Its rich, long-cooking breads, hearty soups and spicy condiments add up to some seriously delicious soul food. Now, two friends and fans of the cuisine — Israeli food authority Gil Hovav (he’s half-Yemenite) and food writer Adeena Sussman (she’s written about the cuisine…
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Symphony Eats Ghost Chilis, Attempts To Play Instruments
We've watched in horror as countless people take their figurative lives in their hands and chow down on something supremely spicy. Case in point: that time we went to the Hot Sauce Expo. You'd think members of the Danish National Chamber Orchestra with their music Ph.D's would know better than to take a ghost chili…
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Do Chili Peppers Really Grow Better On City Rooftops Than Rural Farms?
Getting your produce from a rooftop garden in your own city has its advantages. For one thing, the freshness factor is maximized, without all the untold hours that your food spends in a dank truck puttering along the highway en route from some rural farm to your local market. Also: the chili peppers — wow!…
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Why Do People Love Eating Dangerous Foods?
[caption id="attachment_69318" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Feel The Burn (left to right): Fugu at a Japanese restaurant, an attempt at the cinnamon challenge, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion — currently the world's hottest pepper.[/caption] Physical and emotional discomfort. Hospitalization. Asphyxiation that can lead to death. No, we’re not talking about the symptoms of some mysterious foodborne illness…
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The Main Spectacle At The NYC Hot Sauce Expo Was (Awesomely) Terrifying
I spent Sunday afternoon basking in cool, sunny weather in Williamsburg's East River Park, enjoying the involuntary tears that come when you've tried about 50 of the hottest sauces available on the market today. Thankfully there was plenty of beer and tequila to wash it down. Oh wait, the beer was splashed with hot sauce…
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Tequila-Marinated Hanger Steak Recipe
We ’ll never forget the first time we had this delicious steak. Exhausted and starving, we stopped at a roadside taco stand on the outskirts of Puerto Vallarta and could not believe how tender and juicy the meat was. The four-foot-tall, gold-toothed cook told us her secret ingredient: tequila.
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Spinach And Mushroom Enchiladas Recipe
These spinach and enchilada mushrooms are a fixture on the menu at Fonda, which just opened its second location in NYC's East Village. For the chef, the key to the enchilada isn't what's inside. "I think the most important thing to focus when you’re doing enchiladas is that sauce," he tells Food Republic in a…
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Classic Sour Orange Mojo Recipe
There are plenty of bottled “mojos” being produced. Avoid them at all costs. Manufacturers have yet to capture the perfection of what you can make and make easily at home. The versatility of this mojo is unparalleled. I have used it for years on a dish in my cookbook called “Yuca Stuffed Shrimp con Mojo.”…
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Tepita-Style Migas Recipe
At Dos Caminos in NYC, chef Ivy Stark serves this classic Mexican breakfast like they make it in Mexico City: a bread-egg sopa (or soup), rather than the Tex-Mex version with scrambled eggs and tortillas. This dish is often made as a hangover cure using leftover bread — migas means "crumbs" — a reminder of…
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The Burger Stand's Fire Burger
There's nothing wrong with you if you don't like spicy food. You're just not as awesome as people who do. And if you mess with the habañero — a pepper about 10 times hotter than a jalapeño — like The Burger Stand in Lawrence, KS does, you're a bare minumum of 10 times hotter than…
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Going Whole Hog In Mexico
“It’s way too early to shove that into your mouth,” my fiancée tsk-tsked, shaking her head in the warm morning sunshine of Valladolid, Mexico. I extended a single grease-stained finger. “Shh,” I said, gazing longingly at my sandwich. “It’s never too early to eat cochinita pibil.” “But it’s 9 a.m.,” she said, sipping her creamy,…
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