Story and Photos by Harald Zoschke Calabria is not only the southernmost tip of the Italian boot, it is also one of the hotbeds of European chile pepper culture. So it’s no wonder that — besides plenty of traditional “hot” dishes and products — a highly popular chile pepper festival and even a museum dedicated solely to the hot pods …
Chile and Dried Cherry Chocolate Dessert
Since preparing a Thanksgiving feast on a barbecue isn’t traditional, why finish it up with the usual pumpkin pie? This layered dessert from Nancy Gerlach is unique in that it can be cooked on the grill like the rest of the meal. The finished dessert has a cake-like topping and a chocolate syrup which can be served with whip cream on top. Place it on the grill while you are indulging with your turkey, and it will be ready to serve at the end of the meal.
Secret Sweet and Spicy Holiday Cakes
By Dave DeWitt Recipes Dark Chocolate Cheesecake with Red Chile Ganache Not Your Aunt Bertha’s Fruitcake Mandarin Orange Walnut Piquin Cake Red Hot Chiles Carrot Cake Red Chile Chocolate Cake with Pineapple Mango Chipotle Glaze I heard a rumor that some holidays were approaching, so being my usual politically-correct self, I’m not going to associate these recipes with any particular …
Hot Stuff at Fancy Foods 2011
By Melanie Yunk On Sunday, January 16, 2011, the four of us arrived at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, ready to sample every one of the 80,000 specialty foods on display. Well, a few of them, anyway. My husband, Kent, and colleague, Kim, and her husband, Tim, helped me navigate the aisles, and we found more than enough tasty …
Chiles and Chocolate
by Dave DeWitt The culinary mating of hot chiles and chocolate was unforgettably revealed to me in the mercado in Oaxaca, where the molinos–grinding mills–in adjacent stalls were processing cacao beans in one stall and mole paste with chiles in the other. In this ancient city, I had this sudden epiphany that, in prehistoric times, ancient cooks would have naturally …
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