February 14th - Valentine’s Day!

Sweet Heat for Your Valentine

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Nancy’s Fiery Fare: Sweet Heat for Your Valentine  by Nancy Gerlach, Fiery-Foods.com Food Editor Recipes in this Issue: Cascabel Caramel TurtlesPeppery Popcorn CandyHabanero Cashew BrittleRum Raisin Red Chile TrufflesChocolate Chile Almond Cookies February 14th, Valentine’s Day, is the one day of the year that has been set aside for expressing your feelings to the people you love. Throughout history there …

Out of the Ash: The Prehistoric Chile Cuisine of Cerén

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By Dave DeWitt On an August evening in A.D. 595, the Loma Caldera in what is now El Salvador erupted, sending clouds of volcanic ash into the Mayan agricultural village of Cerén, burying it twenty feet deep and turning it into the New World equivalent of Pompeii. Miraculously, all the villagers escaped, but what they left behind gives us a …