The Spicy Food Lover’s Media Tour, Part 1

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By Dave DeWitt    The Sur La Table Menu: Pimentón Garlic Soup Bolivian Quinoa Salad Habanero Spiced Black Beansand Rice with Cuban Sofrito Potato Cakes with Cilantro Gaucho Grilled Beef withMolho Campanha Fresh Margarita Strawberries withTequila and Cracked Black Pepper               Part 1: From Scottsdale to Long Island     Part 2: The Left Coast     Part 3: Wrap Up, Credits, and Media …

The Spicy Food Lover’s Media Tour, Part 2

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By Dave DeWitt  Copia Menu: Tortilla Roll-Ups Southwest Salsa Soup with Lime Cream Spinach Salad with Prickly Pear Cactus Crab-Stuffed Chiles Fresh Margarita Strawberries withTequila and Cracked Black Pepper                 Part 1: From Scottsdale to Long Island   Part 2: The Left Coast     Part 3: Wrap Up, Credits, and Media Tour Awards La-La Land After a 5 1/2 hour flight from …

The Spicy Food Lover’s Media Tour, Part 3

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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 …

Harvesting Red Chile

Behind the Scenes in Hatch, N.M.

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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

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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 …