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The Hot Sauce Bible: Revised Old & New Testament

by Dave DeWitt, Chuck Evans and Scott Roberts

The authors are seeking worldwide manufacturers who make spicy sauces & salsas with chile peppers as their primary occupation to submit their story for a book abut the history of the hot sauce manufacturing industry, to be published at a later date. The book will supplement pepper sauce and salsa manufacturing and is a follow-up to original The Hot Sauce Bible (1996) Crossing Press, which went out-of-print in 2001. The Hot Sauce Bible: New Testament will provide a history of the industry from 1996 to present, coupled with a revised Old Testament for a historical record of hot sauce and salsa manufacturing as has been pieced together by Chuck Evans.

Co-packer manufacturers are welcome to submit information for inclusion as long as the co-packer has their own in-house labeled product line.

Hobbyists, week-end chileheads, and manufacturers making products at home or part-time do not meet the criteria for inclusion as manufacturers.

Private Label products are excluded under all circumstances.

Please provide in an attachment concise (several paragraphs to 1 page unless more needed), neatly written with spell-check…all copy to be written in the submitter’s own words….

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ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons has introduced his very own line of zesty sauces to spice up your next barbeque or Tex-Mex meal. The guitar legend debuted his BFG brand condiments, #44 BBQ Sauce and #44 Sauce Piquant, over the weekend at Lambert’s Restaurant in Austin, Texas, during the South by Southwest festival, Noise11.com reports.

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If you were around back in the heyday of the Hot Sauce Blog, then you’ll remember Eric “Eman” Nanista quite well.

Well, Eman is putting some hot sauce baskets together for a silent auction to benefit Cystic Fibrosis on April 15th for some local Missouri kids with this disease.sta quite well.

If you’re a product manufacturer, please consider helping out! It doesn’t matter if you make hot sauce, BBQ sauce, wing sauce, seasonings or whatever…your contributions will be greatly appreciated! So if you would like to have your brand represented or would like to just donate something, please email Eman at eric_nanista “at” yahoo.com and he will get you his shipping address. Thanks again! Continue reading →

IRVING, TX — New Mexico State University’s Sancto Scorpio hot sauce, made with the newly crowned hottest pepper on the planet, landed three awards at ZestFest, an annual blazing-hot food festival. Sancto Scorpio, produced by CaJohn’s Fiery Foods, contains Trinidad Moruga Scorpion – the hottest pepper on Earth.

“Because of the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers, this product is even hotter than the Holy Jolokia hot sauce that CaJohn’s unveiled for us a few years ago,” said Mark Gladden, a development officer for NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. “These awards show the sauce is not only hot, but tastes good, too.”
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Thousands of “fire eaters” set to enjoy world’s largest spicy foods show

For Immediate Release – February 14, 2012

Contact: Tom Garrity, The Garrity Group (505) 898-8689

Julianne Horn, The Garrity Group (505) 898-8689

Albuquerque, NM – The 24rd annual National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show is prepping for a sizzling weekend of gourmet foods, sauces, spices, sweet-heat treats and rubs at Sandia Resort and Casino March 2-4, 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Show highlights will include cooking demonstrations, exciting new exhibitors, the release of “Dave DeWitt’s Chile Trivia” book and a special exhibit devoted to New Mexican grown super-hot chile peppers.

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