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My friend Horrible Haggis will soon be celebrating the 10th anniversary of his festival in Jindivick, Victoria that happens right before the Fiery Foods & BBQ Show. Here’s his poster for the event. Note the Valentine’s Day promotion, a Fiery Kissing Competition! Now, that’s hot!
A New York City artist has come up with a great way to insult the disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff: a bottle of hot habanero sauce called "Bernie in Hell." Alex Gardega said he wanted to make a statement about Madoff, who is accused of taking $50 billion from investors in his fund. Bottles of the sauce, available for …
Much of what we know about now-extinct brands of hot sauces comes from bottle collectors. There is not a great body of material on the subject of collectible hot sauce bottles, but we are indebted to Betty Zumwalt, author of Ketchup, Pickles, Sauces: 19th Century Food in Glass, who dutifully catalogued obscure hot sauce bottles found by collectors. Many bottles …
You know you’re going to like a guy when, asked how he got started in the honey business, he answers, "I started keeping bees because I drink." Reed Booth, otherwise known as the "Killer Bee Guy," is a home-brewer and mead (honey wine) maker. More than fifteen years ago, after settling in Arizona, Booth was joking with his friend that …
German researchers have discovered that the flapping of bees’ wings scares off caterpillars, reducing leaf damage on bell peppers and soybeans. Many wasp species lay their eggs in caterpillars, and so caterpillars have evolved to avoid them. The sounds of bees’ and wasps’ wings are similar. Researchers suggest this is an added bonus of having bees around, as well as …
