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I was looking through Michael Karl Witzel’s fun new book, Barbecue Road Trip, when I spotted a reference to Bill’s Barbecue in Richmond, Virginia. This brought back a flood of memories. In 1967, I was in graduate school at the University of Richmond and lived on Monument Avenue, just a few blocks from Bill’s. I never had much BBQ when …
Neil O’Connor, who lives in Cape Coral, Florida, had a nice Christmas present in the fiery form of a prolific ‘Bhut Jolokia’ ("Ghost Pepper") plant. Neil writes: "While I was writing my email to you, my wife, Diane, looked over my shoulder and said ‘You don’t have 50 peppers on that plant.’ She went out to count them and …
Many years ago I wrote a novel that was never published called Sidewinders, and in it my hero, a journalist, uncovers a plot to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. in cans of Mexican food products like enchilada sauce. Well, today in Durham, Ontario police arrested Mahendrapaul Doodnauth (how could I make that name up?) and charged him with smuggling 276 …
According to the new report from Packaged Facts, 31 million foodies, or 14% of the population, are shaping the American palate and offering food manufacturers a willing audience for new product launches. The report, with a very bulky title, Foodies in the U.S.: Five Cohorts: Foreign/Spicy, Restaurant, Cooks, Gourmet, and Organic/Natural, uses data from Simmons Market Research to segment the …
I mentioned in an earlier post that Marco Budinis had visited the Natalidea show in Genoa and had found a bunch of spicy foods. Now he shares more pix with us, from standard fare like crushed chiles and chile powder… To spiced-up olives from Puglia… And chile-laden hard Pecorino cheese from Calabria… The Calabrians love spicy cheese, so why not …
