The Chilehead’s Paradise of Peru

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By Scott Rose Machu Picchu Recipes: Stuffed RocotosSalsa CriollaAjí de GallinaRed Snapper Ceviche Peru is a chilehead’s paradise. The country has over 300 different known types of chile peppers, and the nation’s regional cuisines, all chile-centric, try to outdo each other in firepower. A North American who cultivates a love for chiles might well be looked on by his sissy-tongued, …

Siberian Hot Stuff

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By Sharon Hudgins Location Photos by Tom and Sharon Hudgins                Pepper Vendor      Recipes:      Garlic Cheese     Apple-Horseradish Sauce     Korean Carrot Salad      Adzhiga Nobody thinks of Siberian foods as spicy-hot. And in general that’s true. But delve beyond surface impressions and pallid Russian restaurant fare, and you’ll soon encounter some surprisingly spicy elements of this northern cuisine. …

Yo Soy un Chiltepínero!

Dave DeWitt Cooking with Chiles, In the Kitchen with Chile Peppers, Making Salsa and Hot Sauce, Mexico and Central America Leave a Comment

 By Dave DeWitt Above, the Sierra Madre, Home of Chiltepins My amigo Antonio swears that the motto of the Sonoran bus lines is “Better Dead Than Late,” and I believe him.  The smoke-belching buses were flying by us on curves marked by shrines commemorating the unfortunate drivers whose journeys through life had abruptly ended on this mountain road.  We waved …

India, northeastern Staes Assam, Nagaland and Manipur, City of Tezpur

Saga Jolokia

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By Harald Zoschke SuperSite Recommendations   Chile Pepper Bedding Plants… over 500 varieties from Cross Country Nurseries, shipping April to early June. Fresh pods ship September and early October. Go here Chile Pepper Seeds… from all over the world from the Chile Pepper Institute. Go here Saga Jolokia – Searching for the new “World’s Hottest Chile” By Harald Zoschke, with …

How to Cook with the Superhot Chiles

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By Dave DeWitt This superhot kitchen situation is not for the faint of hearth! Over the past few years we’ve seen a dramatic escalation in the heat levels of certain varieties of the species Capsicum chinense, those fiery habanero relatives. When I got started in the fiery foods biz more than two decades ago, the orange habanero was king of …