It can be difficult for those of us with an aversion to especially spicy sensations to understand the appeal of paying top-dollar to eat something that can make you sweat and cry uncontrollably. But ...

Importance of Aji Amarillo in Peru If you ask any chef the one must have ingredient in Peruvian cuisine, they’ll tell you aji amarillo, hands down. The Peruvian yellow pepper is the all star ...

On today’s TribLive Taste Test, we decided to unnecessarily torture ourselves by trying a couple of hot peppers from staff writer Patrick Varine’s home garden. Well, technically we tried one very ...

I used to take pride in eating the hottest chiles I could. I went up the ranks of the Scoville scale, dosing myself with Thai bird chiles, Scotch bonnets, habaneros, Trinidad Moruga scorpions and bhut ...

Peru may be one of the last places people associate with Hanukkah, but when we visited that country a few months ago, the potato lovers’ holiday was very much on our minds. After all, potatoes ...

Gone are the days when cayenne and Tabasco peppers were the predominant source of spice on Southern tables. Now our meals are enlivened with a wide range of peppers, many, like the cayenne, native to ...