By Dave DeWitt Media Recipe: Avocado Herb Omelet with Hot Chutney Part 1: From Scottsdale to Long Island Part 2: The Left Coast Part 3: Wrap Up, Credits, and Media Tour Awards Thanks to All A media tour of such duration is a production that requires the cooperation more than 100 professionals, all working together to make sure that …
Behind the Scenes in Hatch, N.M.
Photo-Essay by Paul Ross In a region renowned for chile, at the end of the season of green and in a town synonymous with both, New Mexico has gone red.The annual Hatch Chile Festival is over and the quiet fields which swaddle the returned-to-sleepy town are newly-plowed and waiting or–dotted with–rich, red, maturing pods of friendly fire. A few souls …
Arizona: Chasing Chiltepíns, Part 1
By Kraig Kraft The Search for the Origins of Chile Peppers Starts in Arizona As a graduate student studying crop evolution at U.C. Davis, I am focusing my work on describing the genetic changes that took place during the domestication of Capsicum annuum, a species that includes some of the most common varieties of chile peppers cultivated worldwide. In …
Muy Caliente in Miami
Recipes: Chipotle-Habanero Hot SauceSweet n’ Spicy Caribbean Hot SauceMiami CevicheSmoky Black BeansHaitian Legume In Miami, heat is as much a part of the culture as bikinis and mojitos. Heat affects everything from the clothes people wear (or don’t wear), to the cars they drive, to the music pumping out of their stereos. In a city like this, it …
St. Augustine: A Date with Datil Peppers
By Suzanne Hall; Photos by Suzanne Hall except where indicated Recipes: Gator Sauce Sausage Pilau Byron’s Barbecue Beans Datiled Eggs Hellish Tacos Paul’s Devilish Roasted Chicken St. Augustine has a hot little secret–the Datil pepper. No one there talks much about the peppers. But if you get a chance to peek into the backyards of some of the city’s …