Every year, the Jolly Lane Greenhouse hosts the Chile Pepper Festival, giving everyone a strong dose of all things chile and ...

What was state of the art in 1912 has mostly fallen by the wayside. Cars have replaced horses. Washing machines have replaced washboards. Air travel, refrigeration and container shipping have ...

Whether you're a spice aficionado or are just starting your pepper-eating journey, it's important to know if you should reach ...

Google Doodle honors Wilbur Scoville, the creator of the Scoville scale that measures the spicy heat of chili peppers. A Google Doodle is a special but temporary alteration to the Google logo on the ...

One of my first trips with my wife and my daughter was to Sharon, Pennsylvania. We sat on a patio, and we had to do something we had never done before. I told the waitress yes, I would like very much ...

When biting into a chili pepper, you expect a fiery sensation on your tongue. This spiciness is detected because of capsaicinoid compounds. But for some peppers, despite high levels of capsaicinoids, ...

(CNN) — The Carolina Reaper has met its match. Chili Pepper X has captured the spicy record as the world’s hottest, Guinness World Records announced on Monday. The new pepper rates an average of 2.69 ...

Chili pepper heat intensity has long been attributed to two members of a class of compounds called capsaicinoids: capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin. Scoville Heat Units, a scale used for over a century ...

Hot peppers are a produce typically grown between the first spring and fall frosts and are available from local growers. Hot (or chili) peppers belong to the capsicum family. Peppers are hot if they ...

Here's some hot stuff for you: If you want to spice things up in your kitchen, try turning up the heat with chile peppers! Latina magazine's (www.latina.com) editorial director, Betty Cortina, says ...