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Chili Pepper Birdseed; Yes, It’s a Thing

Chili Pepper Birdseed; Yes, It’s a Thing

You may love popping off to the local sports bar to indulge in the hottest wings you can find. The latest spicy offerings from fast food joints might have forced...

Chili Pepper Birdseed; Yes, It’s a Thing

You may love popping off to the local sports bar to indulge in the hottest wings you can find. The latest spicy offerings from fast food joints might have forced...

Time to Pump Some Iron

Time to Pump Some Iron

Chili peppers contain all sorts of vitamins and antioxidants alongside the fiery compound, capsaicin. The fight against free radicals is all the rage at the moment, but it’s really the...

Time to Pump Some Iron

Chili peppers contain all sorts of vitamins and antioxidants alongside the fiery compound, capsaicin. The fight against free radicals is all the rage at the moment, but it’s really the...

How To Preserve Your Chilies

How To Preserve Your Chilies

If you planted your chili peppers early enough, you should have them in the ground by now. In fact, you may see the fruits of your labor already. Newbies to...

How To Preserve Your Chilies

If you planted your chili peppers early enough, you should have them in the ground by now. In fact, you may see the fruits of your labor already. Newbies to...

The Hot Sauce Industry Is Hot

The Hot Sauce Industry Is Hot

Even if you’re keeping to a Paleo diet, you’re not eating the same things your ancestors did. No one is. That’s because what could have been available in a certain area and...

The Hot Sauce Industry Is Hot

Even if you’re keeping to a Paleo diet, you’re not eating the same things your ancestors did. No one is. That’s because what could have been available in a certain area and...

You Should Be Dousing Your Food with Hot Sauce

You Should Be Dousing Your Food with Hot Sauce

Why stop with a drop or two? Why not cover your food in hot sauce? Okay, we’ll make a few exceptions for that; we don’t recommend the following groups slather their food...

You Should Be Dousing Your Food with Hot Sauce

Why stop with a drop or two? Why not cover your food in hot sauce? Okay, we’ll make a few exceptions for that; we don’t recommend the following groups slather their food...

Opening Day Brings the Promise of Insane Food

Opening Day Brings the Promise of Insane Food

The fantastic thing about American sports is that one season just rolls on into the next for an almost constant fix. Clearly, we love watching those sports; they’re always on...

Opening Day Brings the Promise of Insane Food

The fantastic thing about American sports is that one season just rolls on into the next for an almost constant fix. Clearly, we love watching those sports; they’re always on...