Crank It Up: Nashville Hot Grilled Chicken
Batter and biscuit your way to a more delicious dinner. This Nashville hot grilled chicken ditches the calories, not the flavor.
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What Cities Could Learn From Dining In The Small-Town South
We believe cities and their diners could stand to learn from the small-town South when it comes to these five dining concepts.
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Fuego Box: Gift Nirvana For The Heat-Craver
With Fuego Box, you can provide the spice fiend in your life with the gift of some of the best hot sauces in America. Spicy!
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London Calls: Make Byron's Rarebit Burger
Chef Tom Byng opened the first Byron in London, serving the kind of burgers that seemed absent from the dining scene. Rarebit burgers are where it's at.
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Masa Must: How To Make Sopes With Chorizo And Mushrooms
Sopes — savory Mexican masa tarts — are kind of like the guy who lives under the bridge by choice, the one you only ever hear about as an urban legend, and you assume he's not real. Then one day you see him pushing a wheel-mounted half-ton sculpture of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump eating his own head…
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I Ate A Carolina Reaper Pepper And Lived To Tell The Story (Video Included)
It’s been a full 18 hours since I made one of the worst decisions of my personal life and professional career, and I’m still very much feeling the terribly painful repercussions. No, I didn’t make a costly editorial error on Food Republic or break up with a girlfriend I now realize was actually “the one.”…
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5 Ways You're Making Your Bloody Mary All Wrong
Veteran bartender Lisa Seabury takes the classic Bloody Mary cocktail very seriously. "This is a really weird comparison, but I feel like they're as personal as your underwear or your perfume," she says. "Bloody Marys are very personal — I'm very passionate about that."Indeed, the traditional vodka-and-tomato-juice combo, which some say dates back to 1920s…
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Celebrate The Chili Pepper At This Weekend's NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Hot sauce has never been hotter…both literally and figuratively. Sriracha bottles are commonly found in home kitchens and at just about every restaurant, while heavily spiced dishes — most notably the spicy chicken sandwich — reign supreme in major cities across the country. Meanwhile, turn on the television to any food (or science) channel and…
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Liberally Spiced: A Hot Sauce Inspired By Bernie Sanders
What do Tango Chili Sauce and Senator Bernie Sanders have in common? They’re both from Brooklyn, and they share a name, sort of.The small-batch, carrot-based hot sauce released a special label featuring the presidential candidate’s face and calling it “Feel the Bern.” Tango is also donating 10 percent ($1) from each bottle sold to Sanders’s…
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Shrimp Cakes With Watermelon Hot Sauce
It happens to me every summer. I go to the store, see the watermelons and the voice in my head says, “Ooooooh, watermelon!” Then I buy a whole watermelon. It’s not easy to eat a whole watermelon by yourself. Around the time the last quarter of it is left, that watermelon is probably getting close…
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Brooklyn Hot Sauce Shop Employs World's First Hot Sauce Sommelier
Exciting news, spicy-food lovers! Soon you’ll be able to get your hands on all the hot sauce you can dream of buying. Heatonist, a tiny new specialty shop with a focus on global hot sauces, will open in Williamsburg in just a few short weeks, featuring around 150 hot sauce bottles, a tasting bar and…
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Cooking Yemenite? Here's Your Schug Recipe.
Israelis go crazy for simple, satisfying Yemenite food, and for good reason: Its rich, long-cooking breads, hearty soups and spicy condiments add up to some seriously delicious soul food. Now, two friends and fans of the cuisine — Israeli food authority Gil Hovav (he’s half-Yemenite) and food writer Adeena Sussman (she’s written about the cuisine…
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The LA Times Conducts A Blind Taste Test Of Hot Sauces. The Winner Surprises.
Two chefs, one restaurant critic and ten hot sauces. That was the scene at a ramen restaurant in Los Angeles recently, where three influential food figures came together to settle a simple question: Which hot sauce reigns supreme?Hot sauce has grown into a thriving industry over the years. The days of half-empty bottles of Tabasco…
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Meet The Guy Behind The Spicy Rooster Sauce You Love So Much
[caption id="attachment_75412" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Americans are likely to immediately associate Sriracha sauce with the Huy Fong Foods version.[/caption] Few food products have been met with such a frenzy — and have stood the test of time — quite like Sriracha. Since exploding onto the U.S. culinary scene just over a half decade ago, the…
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Is Dexter Holland's Gringo Bandito The Best Hot Sauce In America?
Playboy, the magazine best known for the articles you claim to read, is now doing listicles — ranking various things such as fast-food burgers and celebrity chefs. The latest subject to generate slideshow-worthy ratings for the famous bunny-logo brand is bottled hot sauces. So, which peppery product is spicy enough to earn the top spot…
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Buffalo Wings Lite: Spicy Chicken Burger Recipe
While we're not exactly taking bikini season very seriously (more General Tso fried chicken!) there does come a point where it's time to lighten up. Thankfully, cookbook author Marlene Koch has you covered with Eat What You Love Everyday, a hack-tastic cookbook full of ways to slash the fat. Instead of dredged, fried wings dripping…
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8 Great Gastronomic Gifts For Father's Day
He’s cooked hundreds, nay, thousands of meals for you, from fluffy pancakes to perfectly moist burgers to savory moussaka. He thoughtfully selected that Ruinart Blanc de Blanc when you finished grad school. He even taught you how to make an Old Fashioned that stands up to the best that any suspenders-wearing mixologist can muster. How…
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The Rooster Crows Again: Sriracha Standoff Ends In Time For Chile-Grinding Season
Good news for Rooster Sauce aficionados: the legal battle between Sriracha maker Huy Fong Foods and the city of Irwindale, CA, where the ultra-popular hot sauce is produced, has come to a seemingly amicable end. RELATED: Sriracha: Condiment or Hot Sauce? Discuss. According to the Pasadena Star-News, Irwindale officials last night unanimously dismissed a lawsuit…
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Totally Serious Reviews On Amazon: Ghost Chili Hot Sauces
In our last installment of Totally Serious Reviews On Amazon, we tackled what appeared to be a fundamental problem with sugar-free Haribo gummy bears. While unfortunate to the consumers, it was hilarious to us, which is why we're moving on to something else you should think twice about before attempting to digest: ghost chili hot…
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Not Just For Bourbon: 8 Barrel-Aged Food Products, And How To Buy Them
All across the country, people are starting to utilize barrel-aging, for everything from vanilla to pickles to gin. “When using barrels to age other food products, this is a great method to impart specific or nuanced flavors,” says Trey Zoeller, owner of Jefferson’s Bourbon. Try one of these products and see for yourself. Or, embrace…
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In Search Of The Next Sriracha: Is It Snake Oil?
With a California court recently halting Sriracha production — potentially disrupting the vital life-blood of countless capsaicin freaks across the country — now is a good time to get a new hot-sauce obsession. And here’s one with a distinctive bite: Snake Oil, the kitschy-labeled small-batch elixir of Spike Gjerde, chef-owner of Baltimore’s acclaimed Woodberry Kitchen.…
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How I Launched A Sriracha Festival In The Heart Of Its Motherland: Los Angeles
I’ve kind of got a thing for Sriracha. The flavor, the heat, the backstory — I love it all. And when I got this crazy idea back in 2009 to write a cookbook about it, I had no idea where it would take me. In the years since, I’ve come across all kinds of interesting…
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Randy Clemens Knows More About Sriracha Than, Well, Anybody
Randy Clemens’s relationship with Sriracha began long ago, when he would eat at a Vietnamese friend’s house after nightly band practice. What began as mere enjoyment quickly turned into infatuation and Clemens has now penned two cookbooks – his most recent work is The Veggie-Lover’s Sriracha Cookbook for Ten Speed Press – based on the…
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Ethiopian Chicken Doro Wat Recipe
A great hot sauce cookbook illustrates that different sauces are suited for different uses. James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and restaurant critic Robb Walsh's The Hot Sauce Cookbook doesn't disappoint — there are recipes for Frank's Red Hot, sriracha, Tabasco...hot Ethiopian berbere paste, you name it. And speaking of the latter, there is no better time to…
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Mexican Shrimp Cocktail Recipe
A great hot sauce cookbook illustrates that different sauces are suited for different uses. James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and restaurant critic Robb Walsh's The Hot Sauce Cookbook doesn't disappoint — there are recipes for Frank's Red Hot, sriracha, Tabasco, you name it. We love a healthy shake of Cholula on Mexican food, especially in…
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Smashed Potato Bomb With Fried Eggs
I'm particularly proud of the Smashed Potato Bomb, as I am with Quesadillas Benedict, because I made it up on the spot and it took exactly 10 minutes to cook. Well, that's not entirely true, I had a leftover baked potato from the night before, so that shaved off about half an hour. After you…
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