In Texas, we find spice so nice we had to proclaim it twice. The Lone Star State is home to not one but two officially sanctioned chiles. In 1995, the Texas Legislature declared the ubiquitous ...

What was state of the art in 1912 has mostly fallen by the wayside. Cars have replaced horses. Washing machines have replaced washboards. Air travel, refrigeration and container shipping have ...

With Zest Fest on the horizon, my eyes are a little more attuned to chili-related news. A post on the Smithsonian Food and Think blog seems a perfect primer to the upcoming festivities. Many know that ...

The Carolina reaper — with its fiery red color and gnarly, bumpy skin — measures in at up to two million Scoville heat units. That means the reaper is 200 times hotter than a jalapeno. These peppers ...

In one afternoon, I managed to find not one, but two locally-made adult beverages infused with ghost pepper—famed for its Scoville heat scale rating of more than a million. In one afternoon, I managed ...