Many people love the rush of eating spicy food, but there’s more to hot peppers than a burning tongue. A growing body of ...

Oral history holds that this dish was created in honor of the Portuguese poet Bulhão Pato, who lived during the 1800s. It is ...

The nightshade family comprises 3,000 species and almost 100 different genera, including chili peppers. The ancient chili pepper was technically a fruit—and a berry, at that. While tomatoes and ...

The heart of chili pepper country in southern New Mexico is the tiny village of Hatch, which bills itself the "Chile Capital of the World." A new state law aims to protect this food heritage by ...

There are hundreds of chile-pepper varieties from which to choose for the home garden, so it pays to know which deliver the most flavor and which pack the most heat. Others are popular simply for ...

In my view, the greatest disservice that we do to a foodstuff is how we treat the chile pepper. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 29°F. Saturday, February 22nd 2025 ...

This Basque-region chili pepper makes Spanish tapas even more amazing. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 71°F. Saturday, June 7th 2025 Today's e-Edition. Home Page. News.

Except for a class from Mexican cooking doyenne Diana Kennedy, who introduced me to epazote, a prickly leaf herb as sharp and daunting as the teacher herself, almost everything I know about ...

A team of scientists at NASA is working to launch the Española chile pepper into space. This would be the first fruiting plant the United States has grown and harvested at the International Space ...

A 34-year-old man ate a Carolina Reaper, the hottest chile pepper on earth, and developed what's known as a "thunderclap headache." It was the headache heard 'round the world. Media outlets from "T… ...