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EXPLORE THE WORLD OF CHILES AND WORLD CUISINES
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SCOVILLE HEAT TABLE
Interactive Scoville Periodic Table New from the UK. – Click on each chile for pop-up information.
LIVE PLANT & SEED SOURCES
Chile gardeners, go to Peppahead's Chile Patch for links.
Cross Country Nurseries Is the place to order your chile plants for your garden. Yes they sell Super Hots, including Smokin' Ed's Carolina Reaper! Seasonal shipments
SOURCE SITES, RECIPES & WEB RING
Fiery Foods & BBQ Supersite Dave DeWitt's Most Excellent Web Site. The eye of the chile hurricane, for sure. Be sure to sign up for his newsletter. You will be busy trying to keep up with this amazing guy. Truly, The Pope of Peppers.
NMSU Library Located at the New Mexico State Univ. in Las Cruces. Loaded with historical and regional materials about New Mexico. Every year they offer their own Chile wall calendar with chiles, historical images and recipes. Also a nice set of note cards of images from the calendar. Purchases help support the library. Click Here for information .
Chileplanet.eu A beautifully crafted website, loaded with information on chile history, photo galleries, cultivation, database and a huge Scoville Heat listing. Now if they would only use the correct New World spelling for "CHILE".
"...the term chile refers to the plant or fruit from the plant, while the term chili refers to a culinary dish consisting of meat and/or beans, tomatoes and seasoned chile powder." Chile Pepper Institute, New Mexico
SAVEUR is the global guide to cooking, entertaining, and food travel. SAVEUR has collected thousands of gourmet recipes including a rich selection of ethnic dishes. Click HERE to browse recipes. Down side: lots of pop-up ads.
Fine Cooking Excellent cooking magazine and their website is an excellent source for recipes, cooking techniques and tips. Click HERE to browse recipes.
Food.com A Treasure Trove of recipe variations. Browse 1000s recipes by category, ingredients, cuisine, occasion, preparation and more. Example: 383 recipes for "Bourbon Sauces"
Cooking Schools Directory Find a culinary school. Worldwide cooking schools directory.
The Cook's Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.
How To Make Salsas and Hot Sauces Information and recipes on making basic hot sauces, by Dave DeWitt and Chuck Evans.
GOOGLE Enter “Recipe Search” for a huge list of sources. Also enter the name of a dish or type of cooking you are looking for. It seems endless.
sfgate.com San Francisco’s finest web site. And a great foodie search site.
Bailey Farms Wholesale chile growers, offering fresh and dried chiles. Their web site has numerous recipes and chile information.
Epicurious Recipe site from the publishers of Bon Appétit and Gourmet mags.
The Ring of Fire A comprehensive Web index and gateway to fiery food information and products on the Internet.
CHILEHEAD EVENTS & TRADE SHOWS
Hot Sauce, Chile Pepper or Spicy Cuisine Trade Shows
Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show
National Barbecue News Calendar
SPECIALTY FOOD SOURCES
The Smoked Olive "Genius"–Chef Tyler Florence. Award Winning, Naturally Smoked Olive Oil, using Northern California's finest extra virgin olive oils. Smoked Chile Oil and assorted Smoked Brown Sugars now available.
Not to be missed!
Rancho Gordo Heirloom Beans and Posole along with a wonderful selection of spices and other unique products. Also offering cooking guides and recipes for their products.
The Chile Shop One of the oldest hot shops in the USA, located in Downtown Old Santa Fe. Offering some of the richest and purest New Mexican chiles. They also have a wide selection of other Southwestern products and gifts.
San Francisco Herb Co. High quality herbs, spices, blends and essential oils at exceptional prices. Bulk purchases available. Excellent service!
The Chile Guy A purveyor of only the finest quality bulk chiles that boast exquisite flavor and located in Bernalillo, NM. Their Green Chile powder is made with roasted green chiles –PERFECT!
The Chile Academy Here is one for the Heat Freaks! Specializing in super hot chiles – seeds, powders and hot sauces. Their offerings include the Carolina Reaper, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia), 7 Pot
and many more!
Starlight Herb & Spice Starlight offers over 120 varieties of premium quality dried herbs & spices. Their packaging is perfect for gifts – see "Gift Crates".
Real Wasabi Are you a Wasabi lover? Here's the real deal! Fresh Wasabi Rhizomes and Genuine Wasabi Products.
Asian Food Sources Go to Google and find numerous Asian food sources.
Kalustyan's A worldwide selection of products for gourmet cooks and chefs. There are 84 amazing varieties of
world-chiles. Have you ever heard of a white chile powder from India (white bird chile)? Most listings provide Scoville heat ratings. You can search and shop by Category or Brand.
EfoodDepot A vast list of hard-to-find Ethnic Food Products – Asian, African, Middle Eastern and Eastern European.
Los Chileros de Nuevo Mexico Gourmet New Mexican foods and recipes.
MexGrocer.com An online grocery store for authentic Mexican food, Mexican recipes, cookbooks, tips, utensils.
If you can’t find it, they probably have it.
Brandon Natural Beef Natural Grass Feed Beef, grown in the high country of Westcliffe, Colorado. Buy grass-fed beef and it will deliver directly to you if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area. OUTSIDE THE BAY AREA?? – We ship Federal Express 2nd Day Air for all non-Bay Area residences. For Details, Please Click Here.
SKS Bottle & Packaging, Inc. A supplier of glass and plastic containers with a full line of hot sauce bottles
and spice jars.
BBQ Oyster Grill Shellfish Cooking Racks For perfect BBQ oysters, use BBQ Oyster Grill shellfish cooking racks,
the best solution for grilling oysters and other shellfish on the half shell.
HOT READING
Try your local bookstore or go online at: www.barnesandnoble.com or www.amazon.com
Chile Pepper Magazine The longtime flagship for the chile world, and a lively publication for chileheads. Founded by Dave DeWitt over 20 years ago.
Classic Indian Cooking This extraordinary cookbook, Classic Indian Cooking, amounts to a complete course in Indian cuisine. It systematically introduces the properties of all the basic spices and special ingredients of Indian food, then explains the techniques employed in using them. A masterpiece of culinary instruction.
By Julie Sahni; Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks ISBN-10: 0688037216
The New Food Lovers Companion A must have book for your kitchen–no matter what you like to cook. It is a reference guide–not a cook book–including hundreds of cooking tips with an extensive bibliography. More than 7200 entries. By Sharon Tyler; Herbst & Ron Herbst ISBN 1438001630 (Find it on Amazon)
The Spicy Food Lover's Bible More than 250 recipes from around the world, plus a wealth of related food information. By Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach; Stewart, Tabori and Chang ISBN 1584794119
Food of Santa Fe Authentic recipes contributed by top Santa Fe restaurants featuring traditional and 'high end' cuisine. By Dave DeWitt, Nancy Gerlach; Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. – ISBN 9625932291
The Field Guide to Peppers NEW This guide will help you identify hundreds of the most popular chile varieties.
By Dave DeWitt and Janie Lamson of Chileplants.com. Timber Press – ISBN-10 1604695889 (Release: 12/30/2015)
The Pepper Garden How to Grow Peppers. By Dave DeWitt & Paul Bosland; Ten Speed Press – ISBN 0898155541
The Complete Chile Pepper Book A Gardener’s Guide to Choosing, Growing, Preserving, and Cooking. By Dave DeWitt & Paul W. Bosland; Timber Press – ISBN-10: 0881929204
Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums A beautiful historical and botanical reference on peppers. Written & Illustrated by Jean Andrews; Univ. of Texas Press – ISBN 0292704674
Hot Sauce! Techniques for Making Signature Hot Sauces 32 recipes to get you started and 60 recipes for using your hot sauces. By Jennifer Trainer Thompson; Storey Publishing LLC – ISBN: 160342816X
Hot Sauce Cookbook: The Book of Fiery Salsa and Hot Sauce Recipes A no-frills Hot Sauce How-To book with clear instructions, using a variety of chiles and easy-to-find ingredients and pairing them with authentic regional recipes. Available at Amazon in Kindle and Paperback. Rockridge Press – ISBN-10: 1623153654
The Chile Chronicles: Tales of a New Mexico Harvest The history, cultural heritage, and horticulture of chiles in New Mexico. By Carmella Padilla and Jack Parsons; Museum of New Mexico Press – ISBN-10: 0890133506
How to Grow Peppers By Dave DeWitt & Paul Bosland; Ten Speed Press – ISBN 0898155541
1,001 Best Hot and Spicy Recipes It is composed of the very best dishes from author Dave DeWitt's collection of chili pepper–laden world food recipes. By Dave DeWitt; Agate Surrey – SBN-10: 1572841133
New Mexico Chiles: History :Legend and Lore (American Palate) Author and award-winning documentary filmmaker “Chile Chica” Kelly Brinn Urig offers the enchanting history of chile. The History Press ISBN-10: 1626198640
HOT BLOGS
Burn Blog This lively Blog is located on Dave DeWitt's Most Excellent Web Site: www.fiery-foods.com The eye of the chile hurricane, for sure. Be sure to sign up for his newsletter. You will be busy trying to keep up with this amazing guy. Truly, The Pope of Peppers.
Mad Meat Genius Chile Brown – A chile gardener and gourmet BBQ kinda guy, who has a lively site with recipes and hot sauce reviews. Member of the Hot Sauce Blog.
ScottRobertsWeb.com Scott is a St. Louis, Missouri-based Web Developer and avid Chilehead. This is his Hot Sauce and Spicy Food Blog, featuring his comprehensive Scoville Scale Chart for Hot Chile Peppers and Hot Sauces.
The Talking Plate By Patricia Shrimpton – Wise Bites You Can Sink Your Teeth Into.
The Art of Nourishment. A blog to share, entertain and plate up some inspiration for the world to enjoy.
OTHER TOPICS
At-Home Cold Remedies: How to Make Fire Cider: Step by Step ..... ginger, hot peppers and garlic are combined with apple cider vinegar—for a powerful herbal elixir.
SALT AND YOUR HEALTH How much salt do you eat each day and what are considered to be safe levels for consumption? Here are two links with a considerable amount of data to study:
Sodium Content of Your Food A comprehensive list of sodium content. http://umaine.edu/publications/4059e/
The Salt Myth – How Much Should You Eat Per Day?: http://authoritynutrition.com/how-much-sodium-per-day/
Mark Rutherford A friend, photographic consultant and expert commercial photographer for over 20 years. Based in San Francisco at LUX-SF studios, he has had the privilege of working with a diverse group of people including celebrities, fashion icons, musicians and corporate leaders. Visit his website for some of his exquisite photography and videos.
Sinus Buster Sinus Buster formulas contain natural Capsaicin, an ingredient that's clinically proven to provide amazing relief for headaches, allergies and sinus symptoms.
SCOVILLE HEAT TABLE
Interactive Scoville Periodic Table New from the UK. – Click on each chile for pop-up information.
LIVE PLANT & SEED SOURCES
Chile gardeners, go to Peppahead's Chile Patch for links.
Cross Country Nurseries Is the place to order your chile plants for your garden. Yes they sell Super Hots, including Smokin' Ed's Carolina Reaper! Seasonal shipments
SOURCE SITES, RECIPES & WEB RING
Fiery Foods & BBQ Supersite Dave DeWitt's Most Excellent Web Site. The eye of the chile hurricane, for sure. Be sure to sign up for his newsletter. You will be busy trying to keep up with this amazing guy. Truly, The Pope of Peppers.
NMSU Library Located at the New Mexico State Univ. in Las Cruces. Loaded with historical and regional materials about New Mexico. Every year they offer their own Chile wall calendar with chiles, historical images and recipes. Also a nice set of note cards of images from the calendar. Purchases help support the library. Click Here for information .
Chileplanet.eu A beautifully crafted website, loaded with information on chile history, photo galleries, cultivation, database and a huge Scoville Heat listing. Now if they would only use the correct New World spelling for "CHILE".
"...the term chile refers to the plant or fruit from the plant, while the term chili refers to a culinary dish consisting of meat and/or beans, tomatoes and seasoned chile powder." Chile Pepper Institute, New Mexico
SAVEUR is the global guide to cooking, entertaining, and food travel. SAVEUR has collected thousands of gourmet recipes including a rich selection of ethnic dishes. Click HERE to browse recipes. Down side: lots of pop-up ads.
Fine Cooking Excellent cooking magazine and their website is an excellent source for recipes, cooking techniques and tips. Click HERE to browse recipes.
Food.com A Treasure Trove of recipe variations. Browse 1000s recipes by category, ingredients, cuisine, occasion, preparation and more. Example: 383 recipes for "Bourbon Sauces"
Cooking Schools Directory Find a culinary school. Worldwide cooking schools directory.
The Cook's Thesaurus is a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.
How To Make Salsas and Hot Sauces Information and recipes on making basic hot sauces, by Dave DeWitt and Chuck Evans.
GOOGLE Enter “Recipe Search” for a huge list of sources. Also enter the name of a dish or type of cooking you are looking for. It seems endless.
sfgate.com San Francisco’s finest web site. And a great foodie search site.
Bailey Farms Wholesale chile growers, offering fresh and dried chiles. Their web site has numerous recipes and chile information.
Epicurious Recipe site from the publishers of Bon Appétit and Gourmet mags.
The Ring of Fire A comprehensive Web index and gateway to fiery food information and products on the Internet.
CHILEHEAD EVENTS & TRADE SHOWS
Hot Sauce, Chile Pepper or Spicy Cuisine Trade Shows
Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show
National Barbecue News Calendar
SPECIALTY FOOD SOURCES
The Smoked Olive "Genius"–Chef Tyler Florence. Award Winning, Naturally Smoked Olive Oil, using Northern California's finest extra virgin olive oils. Smoked Chile Oil and assorted Smoked Brown Sugars now available.
Not to be missed!
Rancho Gordo Heirloom Beans and Posole along with a wonderful selection of spices and other unique products. Also offering cooking guides and recipes for their products.
The Chile Shop One of the oldest hot shops in the USA, located in Downtown Old Santa Fe. Offering some of the richest and purest New Mexican chiles. They also have a wide selection of other Southwestern products and gifts.
San Francisco Herb Co. High quality herbs, spices, blends and essential oils at exceptional prices. Bulk purchases available. Excellent service!
The Chile Guy A purveyor of only the finest quality bulk chiles that boast exquisite flavor and located in Bernalillo, NM. Their Green Chile powder is made with roasted green chiles –PERFECT!
The Chile Academy Here is one for the Heat Freaks! Specializing in super hot chiles – seeds, powders and hot sauces. Their offerings include the Carolina Reaper, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia), 7 Pot
and many more!
Starlight Herb & Spice Starlight offers over 120 varieties of premium quality dried herbs & spices. Their packaging is perfect for gifts – see "Gift Crates".
Real Wasabi Are you a Wasabi lover? Here's the real deal! Fresh Wasabi Rhizomes and Genuine Wasabi Products.
Asian Food Sources Go to Google and find numerous Asian food sources.
Kalustyan's A worldwide selection of products for gourmet cooks and chefs. There are 84 amazing varieties of
world-chiles. Have you ever heard of a white chile powder from India (white bird chile)? Most listings provide Scoville heat ratings. You can search and shop by Category or Brand.
EfoodDepot A vast list of hard-to-find Ethnic Food Products – Asian, African, Middle Eastern and Eastern European.
Los Chileros de Nuevo Mexico Gourmet New Mexican foods and recipes.
MexGrocer.com An online grocery store for authentic Mexican food, Mexican recipes, cookbooks, tips, utensils.
If you can’t find it, they probably have it.
Brandon Natural Beef Natural Grass Feed Beef, grown in the high country of Westcliffe, Colorado. Buy grass-fed beef and it will deliver directly to you if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area. OUTSIDE THE BAY AREA?? – We ship Federal Express 2nd Day Air for all non-Bay Area residences. For Details, Please Click Here.
SKS Bottle & Packaging, Inc. A supplier of glass and plastic containers with a full line of hot sauce bottles
and spice jars.
BBQ Oyster Grill Shellfish Cooking Racks For perfect BBQ oysters, use BBQ Oyster Grill shellfish cooking racks,
the best solution for grilling oysters and other shellfish on the half shell.
HOT READING
Try your local bookstore or go online at: www.barnesandnoble.com or www.amazon.com
Chile Pepper Magazine The longtime flagship for the chile world, and a lively publication for chileheads. Founded by Dave DeWitt over 20 years ago.
Classic Indian Cooking This extraordinary cookbook, Classic Indian Cooking, amounts to a complete course in Indian cuisine. It systematically introduces the properties of all the basic spices and special ingredients of Indian food, then explains the techniques employed in using them. A masterpiece of culinary instruction.
By Julie Sahni; Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks ISBN-10: 0688037216
The New Food Lovers Companion A must have book for your kitchen–no matter what you like to cook. It is a reference guide–not a cook book–including hundreds of cooking tips with an extensive bibliography. More than 7200 entries. By Sharon Tyler; Herbst & Ron Herbst ISBN 1438001630 (Find it on Amazon)
The Spicy Food Lover's Bible More than 250 recipes from around the world, plus a wealth of related food information. By Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach; Stewart, Tabori and Chang ISBN 1584794119
Food of Santa Fe Authentic recipes contributed by top Santa Fe restaurants featuring traditional and 'high end' cuisine. By Dave DeWitt, Nancy Gerlach; Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. – ISBN 9625932291
The Field Guide to Peppers NEW This guide will help you identify hundreds of the most popular chile varieties.
By Dave DeWitt and Janie Lamson of Chileplants.com. Timber Press – ISBN-10 1604695889 (Release: 12/30/2015)
The Pepper Garden How to Grow Peppers. By Dave DeWitt & Paul Bosland; Ten Speed Press – ISBN 0898155541
The Complete Chile Pepper Book A Gardener’s Guide to Choosing, Growing, Preserving, and Cooking. By Dave DeWitt & Paul W. Bosland; Timber Press – ISBN-10: 0881929204
Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums A beautiful historical and botanical reference on peppers. Written & Illustrated by Jean Andrews; Univ. of Texas Press – ISBN 0292704674
Hot Sauce! Techniques for Making Signature Hot Sauces 32 recipes to get you started and 60 recipes for using your hot sauces. By Jennifer Trainer Thompson; Storey Publishing LLC – ISBN: 160342816X
Hot Sauce Cookbook: The Book of Fiery Salsa and Hot Sauce Recipes A no-frills Hot Sauce How-To book with clear instructions, using a variety of chiles and easy-to-find ingredients and pairing them with authentic regional recipes. Available at Amazon in Kindle and Paperback. Rockridge Press – ISBN-10: 1623153654
The Chile Chronicles: Tales of a New Mexico Harvest The history, cultural heritage, and horticulture of chiles in New Mexico. By Carmella Padilla and Jack Parsons; Museum of New Mexico Press – ISBN-10: 0890133506
How to Grow Peppers By Dave DeWitt & Paul Bosland; Ten Speed Press – ISBN 0898155541
1,001 Best Hot and Spicy Recipes It is composed of the very best dishes from author Dave DeWitt's collection of chili pepper–laden world food recipes. By Dave DeWitt; Agate Surrey – SBN-10: 1572841133
New Mexico Chiles: History :Legend and Lore (American Palate) Author and award-winning documentary filmmaker “Chile Chica” Kelly Brinn Urig offers the enchanting history of chile. The History Press ISBN-10: 1626198640
HOT BLOGS
Burn Blog This lively Blog is located on Dave DeWitt's Most Excellent Web Site: www.fiery-foods.com The eye of the chile hurricane, for sure. Be sure to sign up for his newsletter. You will be busy trying to keep up with this amazing guy. Truly, The Pope of Peppers.
Mad Meat Genius Chile Brown – A chile gardener and gourmet BBQ kinda guy, who has a lively site with recipes and hot sauce reviews. Member of the Hot Sauce Blog.
ScottRobertsWeb.com Scott is a St. Louis, Missouri-based Web Developer and avid Chilehead. This is his Hot Sauce and Spicy Food Blog, featuring his comprehensive Scoville Scale Chart for Hot Chile Peppers and Hot Sauces.
The Talking Plate By Patricia Shrimpton – Wise Bites You Can Sink Your Teeth Into.
The Art of Nourishment. A blog to share, entertain and plate up some inspiration for the world to enjoy.
OTHER TOPICS
At-Home Cold Remedies: How to Make Fire Cider: Step by Step ..... ginger, hot peppers and garlic are combined with apple cider vinegar—for a powerful herbal elixir.
SALT AND YOUR HEALTH How much salt do you eat each day and what are considered to be safe levels for consumption? Here are two links with a considerable amount of data to study:
Sodium Content of Your Food A comprehensive list of sodium content. http://umaine.edu/publications/4059e/
The Salt Myth – How Much Should You Eat Per Day?: http://authoritynutrition.com/how-much-sodium-per-day/
Mark Rutherford A friend, photographic consultant and expert commercial photographer for over 20 years. Based in San Francisco at LUX-SF studios, he has had the privilege of working with a diverse group of people including celebrities, fashion icons, musicians and corporate leaders. Visit his website for some of his exquisite photography and videos.
Sinus Buster Sinus Buster formulas contain natural Capsaicin, an ingredient that's clinically proven to provide amazing relief for headaches, allergies and sinus symptoms.