It’s official that there’s a new hottest kid on the block – the Moruga Scorpion chile pepper. What’s more important than that is that the largest and most comprehensive study on super-hot chile peppers has been made by New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute and that tons of data will soon be available. After nearly 11 months of work that was headed up by graduate student Gregory Reeves, CPI senior research specialist Danise Coon and CPI director and regents professor Dr. Paul Bosland, the results were publicly announced at last weekend’s Chile Pepper Conference in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Essential to a lot of this was my good friend and chile pepper grower Jim Duffy of Refining Fire Chiles. He, along with Dr. Herman Adam of CARDI, (Caribbean Agriculture Research & Development Institute) provided the vital seeds used to grow the plants in this testing.Copyright 2011 ScottRobertsWeb.com.
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In the brown sand dunes of India’s Thar Desert, local farmers lay out mounds upon mounds of red chilies on thin plastic sheets to dry out under the harsh desert sun. Red, lustrous, and inviting, they are a sight to behold. Once dried, these red chilies will be ground up, packaged and shipped to every corner of the country, or even used directly in one of the many Indian curries.
Red and yellow are the two predominant colors in Indian cuisine. Red, from the generous use of chilies; yellow from turmeric. To say that Indians like their food to be spicy would be an understatement. In some parts of the country, it is an acceptable practice to keep shakers filled with ground up red chili powder next to the…
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Here’s Yahoo!’s Blue Ribbon Hunter‘s version of the Intensity Academy Gourmet & Hot Sauce Company Lollipop Lick-a-Thon a few weeks ago at ZestFest 2012. If you’re unfamiliar with the web show, as I was before they appeared down at ZestFest, it features Chef Allison Fishman as she travels to food festivals all across America.
In this video you’ll see several well-known chileheads and sauce makers. You can also spot me on stage towards the end in the red t-shirt standing next to the winner of the contest.
Unfortunately, a lot of the fun smack-talk from myself and Jacs Tailgaters towards previous Lick-a-Thon winner Vic Clinco wasn’t showcased at all, but this is worth a look, nonetheless:
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