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by Gerald Schmidt China is red. More than just in the flag, more than in its political philosophy. Traditionally, red is the color of luck. The color of the clothes people marry in. The color on many temples. The color of the banners and charms put up around New Year. No wonder, then, that the chile peppers’ role in culture …
I received an advance reading copy of Chris Lilly’s Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ Book, and I’ve read most of it. Chris is an acquaintance of mine, and I watched him demonstrate his technique for pulled pork at Kingsford University in Arizona a few years ago (article is here). I expected his book to be good–after all, he is a 10-time …
by Paul Schatte Head Country Food Products and the BBQ and Chili Company of Stockholm, Sweden have been doing business together for two years. Last April, as general manager of Head Country Food Products, I was invited to Sweden by Jonas and Robert Lundin, owners of the BBQ and Chili Co. The purpose of the trip was for me to …
More than 16,000 buyers jammed San Francisco’s Moscone Center in mid-January to taste new food products from all over the U.S. and three dozen nations around the world at the Fancy Food Show. "Despite near-historic economic challenges, our industry is showing resilience," noted Ann Daw, president of the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, the show’s owner. "Consumers …
Earlier in this blog I wrote about the "legendary Hatch chiles" being a total myth, but this time I’m writing about the northern New Mexico Chimayó chiles that are an endangered food crop. They are a land race of chiles, meaning that they have been grown in the same area for hundreds of years and thus have become, with the …
