Who makes the best Green Chile Cheeseburger, Bobby Flay or Bobby Olguin? Or, maybe, just maybe, Gwyneth Doland and myself! Tonight on the Food Network, on "Throwdown with Bobby Flay," Bobby Olguin of the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, New Mexico, goes up against Bobby Flay in a Green Chile Cheeseburger grill-off. If you miss it, Food Network will repeat …
Gilroy Garlic Festival July 24-26
10 tons of beef … 4 tons of pasta … 4 tons of calamari … 2 tons of scampi … plus 2 tons of fresh Christopher Ranch garlic …More information here. WHO Gilroy Garlic Festival WHAT The 31st Annual "Ultimate Summer Food Fair"; three days of incredible food, arts and crafts, live entertainment, and cooking demonstrations. WHERE Christmas …
New Tabasco® Tequila
Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., the nation’s largest independent family-owned spirits supplier, has announced a licensing agreement with McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana, creator of Tabasco® brand Pepper Sauce, to produce Tabasco™ brand Spicy Tequila and has launched it in select markets. It is now available in Dallas, Houston, Georgia, Indiana and North Carolina. They sent me a sample and …
World’s Largest Green Chile Cheeseburger?
The media in New Mexico was all abuzz recently with the announcement that Peppers Cafe on the Plaza in historic Mesilla had petitioned Guinness World Records to certify its green chile cheeseburger as "the largest commercially available burger of its kind in the world." The meat in the burger weighs one pound and the burger itself has a ten-inch diameter. …
New Water Soluble Chile Extract: HydroCap™
Sonoma Organics, a division of Seco Spice Ltd. of Berino, New Mexico, has announced the release of a new product to stabilize the heat levels of fiery foods products. Until now, manufacturers have had to depend on imported, oil-based oleoresins, notes chemist Marlin Bensinger, who invented the process for making a water soluble chile extract. The advantage of HydroCap™ is …