Blog entries tagged personalities

Dave's Chile Podcast Launches

Dave DeWitt — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:26:37 +0100

James Beck of EatMoreHeat.com is my first guest on the new weekly feature of the SuperSite, and he discusses eating superhot chiles and finishing an Apocalypse Burger. Upcoming guests are Dave Hirschkop who invented Insanity Sauce; chemical engineer Marlin Bensinger, who ...

Dave's Chile Podcasts To Begin

Dave DeWitt — Thu, 12 May 2011 10:25:33 +0100

Sunbelt Shows, Inc., owner of the Fiery Foods & Barbecue SuperSite, has announced the launch of Dave DeWitt's Chile Podcasts, a weekly audio show that features interviews with the top leaders and characters in the fiery foods and barbecue industr...

Kings of BBQ Deliver Finger Lickin’ Meal to Deployed Troops

Kelli Bergthold — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:36:27 +0100

BBQ Pitmaster Myron Mixon with troops

John Markus, Pitmaster and Executive Producer of TLC’s BBQ Pitmasters is leading award-winning Pitmasters Myron Mixon, Johnny Trigg, Jaime Geer, Nicole Davenport and George “Tuffy” Stone on their first USO tour. This September, the Kings of BBQ served up more...

Announcing Wing Sauce Showdown!

Kelli Bergthold — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:58:53 +0100

Rippin’ Red Wing Sauce, the newest product from Rizzotti Foods, LLC will be going head to head with the one and only DEFCON Sauces! The gauntlet was thrown in a thread on peppersandmore.com in August, and both Rippin’ Red Wing Sauce and DEFCON have accepted the challenge.

“It is an honor and pleasure...

Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Magic Seasoning Blends® Revs-Up Production with New Facility

Kelli Bergthold — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:50:10 +0100

By Jim McMahon

As one of America’s best-known chefs, Paul Prudhomme has been featured in dozens of prime-time television and cable programs, and has been the subject of many magazine articles. A best...

Meeting with the King--Again

Dave DeWitt — Sat, 01 May 2010 11:38:18 +0100

Soon we will be in London for another event with Pat Chapman, England's King of Curries, on May 15 (read all about it, here). Pat and I go back a long ways. He's come to Albuquerque several times to make appearances at the Fiery Foods & BBQ Show and once created (with wife ...

Book Tour Continues

Dave DeWitt — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:17:43 +0100

My book tour continues with appearances in New York City, Milan, and London. On April 8th at 6:30pm I'm giving a multimedia presentation, "Growing Chiles in Containers" at the New York Horticultural Society, 148 West 37th Street. Details are still b...

Dave Made a "Hero of Sweden

Dave DeWitt — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:45:59 +0100

Apparently because of all my work over the years on chile peppers, the Swedish government has made me a "Hero of Sweden." You can watch an inspiring video of the announcement here.

El Pinto on "Food Tech" on History Channel

Dave DeWitt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:40:54 +0100

Food Tech
Episode: Mexican

Thursday, February 11 09:00 PM

Friday, February 12 01:00 AM

Thursday, February 18 08:00 PM

Friday, February 19 12:00 AM

With Americans eating more than 85 billion tortillas a year, M...

Rick Browne's New Book Project

Dave DeWitt — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:10:07 +0100

My good friend, Rick Browne of "Barbecue America" on PBS, has launched a new project entitled A Century of Restaurants and because he has to travel to 100-year-old (and older!) restaurants all over the country and photograph them, he needs help funding the project. He has found a publisher an...

R.I.P. Mike Cates

Dave DeWitt — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:17:11 +0100

<At left, Mike ferries Renate Zoschke
around on his cooler train.

We have just learned of the passing of Mike Cates, which is another blow to Hot Shots, the company that lost their leader, Dave Lutes, late last year. M...

RIP Dave Lutes, 1950-2009

Dave DeWitt — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:26:13 +0100

Dave Lutes, owner of Hot Shots in Charlotte, North Carolina passed away on October 22, 2009 at the age of 59. Dave was born on June 3, 1950 in Dayton, Ohio. Dave and his wife Cathy founded Hot Shots, a fiery foods distribution company that ships products worldwide, ...

On a Personal Note...

Dave DeWitt — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:03:44 +0100

I have been exchanging emails with chilehead Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, who just bought a copy of The Complete Chile Pepper Book. He writes, "Got the complete chile pepper book in the mail today...nic...

Fiery Foods & BBQ Show on Travel Channel

Dave DeWitt — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:03:25 +0100

For those of you who missed it, here is a link to "Extreme Conventions" that ran on the Travel Channel, as posted on You Tube by a fan, not by us. It's great publicity and I really appreciate it, but it only portrays the superhot component of the show, which in reality is a very, very small part of the ...

Smoked Elk Ribs

Dave DeWitt — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:19:45 +0100

My friend Chef Ethan Diness, who is a culinary instructor at Central New Mexico Community College, is also a barbecue aficionado who competes on the cookoff circuit. A few days ago he asked if I would like some smoked elk ribs. I only had to think ...

Only Known Photo of Wilbur Scoville--Found at Last!

Dave DeWitt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:13:59 +0100

Wilbur Scoville invented the Scoville Organoleptic Test for measuring the heat in chile peppers while working for Parke-Davis pharmaceutical corporation in 1912 in Detroit. But before then, he was a professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. A libra...

Melanie Covers Garlic Fest!

Dave DeWitt — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:46:13 +0100

By Bay Area Correspondent Melanie Yunk

At the Gilroy Garlic Festival recently, Kent and I made our way through Gourmet Alley and all the various food booths to look for lunch. We found many incredible options: garlic artichokes (another popular local vegetable), stir-fry chicken, calamari, wild boar on a stick, garlic salmon, garlic hot wings ...

Olguin Defeats Flay!

Dave DeWitt — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Flay was flayed in the Green Chile Cheeseburger Throwdown held at the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, New Mexico. Flay flavored his cheeseburger not only with green chile, but wine vinegar, olive oil, "gourmet cheese" (whatever that is) and pickled onions. The two judges, chile specialist Stephanie Walker from New Mexico State University and...

Battle of the Bobby Burgers!

Dave DeWitt — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Who makes the best Green Chile Cheeseburger, Bobby Flay or Bobby Olguin? Or, maybe, just maybe, Gwyneth Doland and myself! Tonight on the Food Network, on "Throwdown with Bobby Flay," Bobby Olguin of the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, New Mexico, goes up against Bobby Flay in a Green Chile Cheeseburger grill-off. If you miss it, Food Netwo...

Gilroy Garlic Festival July 24-26

Dave DeWitt — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0100

10 tons of beef ... 4 tons of pasta ... 4 tons of calamari ... 2 tons of scampi ... plus 2 tons of fresh Christopher Ranch garlic ...More information here.

WHO Gilroy Garlic Festival

WHAT The 31st Annual "Ultimate Summer Food Fair"; three days of incredible food, arts and crafts, live ente...