Before you leave the house for any party, you do the routine check: keys, wallet, phone, mints. Now you can add hot sauce carry purse to that list. Because what if they hand you a burger and don't have bottles of tongue-burning, chili pepper-laden condiments waiting? "They ain't got no hot sauce! I told you we should have called first...C'mon woman, get in the car, we got to go!" Bernie Mac, who died Saturday morning of pneumonia, was freaking out in this SNL sketch until his lady whipped out her sweet Tabasco accessory, where each compartment is insulated and calibrated for maximum hot sauce freshness. Bernie even had something for guys who didn't want to schlep around a girly...
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Hot sauce? Hot air? Both? Barack and Hillary are tied for 12 percent, and Newt's hanging on, just barely, with 4 percent. Independent candidate Nunov Deabove? He's missing from the mainstream media but has a respectable 9 percent here. These aren't AP polls, but hot sauce sales for the presidential-themed bottles at Dave's Gourmet....
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Sitting on chef
Chris Schlesinger's desk is a framed picture of a hastily scribbled, stained recipe for his
Inner Beauty Hot Sauce: Five pounds of Scotch bonnet chilies, one gallon of yellow mustard, plus molasses, brown sugar, honey and spices. The method: Throw it all in the blender, and serve: "I don't know why people
buy hot sauce. It's ridiculous when it's so easy to make yourself."
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