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New Mexican Sundae

Frozen custard gets topped with green chile sauce and salty pecans to make this Las Cruces specialty.

El Potrero Trading Post sells chimayó chile powder.

The Prized Pepper That Comes From a Single New Mexican Town

But can it be grown anywhere else?

Tom Verde March 8, 2019

The pepper is often ground into molido.

Chimayó Chile Pepper

This pepper's sweet taste and long, slow burn is found in a single town.

Fatafat

A complexly flavored post-meal digestive became the candy of choice for Indian children in the 1980s and ’90s.

Bheja Fry

In Hyderabad, vendors sizzle up spicy fried brains.

Is it a tomato or is it a chili?

Scientists Are Using CRISPR to Make Spicy Tomatoes

The fruit could soon look and taste more like chili peppers.

Rohini Chaki January 10, 2019

Dancing Shrimp

Thai street vendors serve this spicy seafood while it's still moving.

Pepper plants made for a hotter holiday.

When the Christmas Plant Was a Pepper, Not a Poinsettia

Chilis were once holiday must-haves.

Anne Ewbank December 20, 2018

Gold-capped for less hot, red-capped for spicy-hot.

Blenheim Ginger Ale

The story of South Carolina's sweet-hot soda begins with a chance discovery during the Revolutionary War.

Dumplings smothered in XO sauce.

XO Sauce

This savory seafood condiment is named after the finest cognacs.

Café Touba

In Senegal, black coffee meets sugar ’n’ spice in one heady brew.

Hot sauce dominates Clinco's living room.

The World's Largest Hot Sauce Collection Might Be in an Arizona Living Room

8,600 bottles and counting.

Anne Ewbank November 2, 2018

Jezebel sauce over cream cheese.

Jezebel Sauce

Cooks in the Southern United States still whip up this spicy, seductively sweet condiment from the 1950s.

Stink beans with shitake mushrooms and pork.

Stink Beans

These Southeast Asian legumes are famed for their lasting funk and deliciously nutty flavor.

Kak'ik

The ancestral soup of the Q’eqchi’ Maya packs heat and history.

Akabanga Chili Oil

The Rwandan condiment is so spicy, it's served with eyedroppers.

Pasilla Mixe

This rare, smoky chile grows only in the Sierra Norte region of Oaxaca.

Julián Isidro's father, Robustiano Isidro Dominguez, rotates pasillas above a heat source.

Saving the Prized Chile That Grows Only in Oaxaca’s Mountains

Farmers growing the smoky pepper had no idea chefs were paying top dollar for it.

Isabel Torrealba September 19, 2018