For the first time in the Scovie Awards competition’s 16-year history, two products tied for the Tasting Division Grand Prize: a candy and a horseradish sauce! Meet the 2011 winners.
Tour The Ultimate Chilehead Garden
From now through October you can visit the gardens at New Mexico State University’s Fabian Garcia Science Center in Las Cruces. There you’ll see peppers being grown the way the pros do it, and possibly pick up some growing tips to take home!
Hickory Smoked Peanuts? You Bet!
Vegetarians and vegans rejoice! Now you, too can enjoy the delicious goodness of a great hunk of smoked meat…without the guilt. The geniuses over at Hampton Farms have married the flavor of hickory smoke with dry-roasted peanuts for a truly addictive new snack. In fact, I’m eating them in between sentences at my computer. Now, I’m not generally an in-the-shell-peanut-eating …
Stone Age BBQ and the First Butchers
The remains of an ancient barbecue indicate that ribs have been popular for a very long time. 7,700-year-old leftovers from an extinct wild ox known as an aurochs were found in the Netherlands and are direct evidence of a cookout that would have been the envy of any modern-day block party. The aurochs must have generated a huge amount of …
Don’t Miss the Disc-It Round Up!
Nevin and the other nice folks at Disc-It are feverishly planning the 3rd Annual Disc-It Round Up in Albuquerque, New Mexico (home of the Disc-It Company). The cookoff will benefit the UNM Hospital Children’s Miracle Network. On Saturday, July 16 from noon to five, a group of specially-selected Disc-It Chefs will compete for top honors. Attendees try the food and …
It May Be the World’s Largest, But Where’s the Green Chile?
A new Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Commercially Available Hamburger was set on Saturday, July 2 at the County Fair in Alameda, California. Weighing in at 777 glorious pounds, the mutant “Juicy’s Outlaw Burger” was created by Juicy’s LLC. After a total of 13 hours’ cooking time and the obligatory weigh-in, the burger was split up and shared …
Cool Down on the Fourth with a Firecracker
This drink looks too good to be legal…but it is, proving that epic July 4th fireworks can be served up in a glass as well as in the sky. Wow your Fourth of July barbecue guests with the Riazul Firecracker. This spicy cocktail, infused with Riazul Premium Silver, was concocted by Jorge Guzman, master mixologist and owner of Ofrenda, the …
