You snack on bell peppers, you love the heat of jalapeño in homemade watermelon salsa and you’ve dabbled with poblanos, but you’re ready to branch out. Good news: There are approximately 4,000 ...

Don't worry if the rest of your family does not appreciate the spicy heat that your favorite hot peppers add to entrees, beverages and desserts. Proper pepper selection, care and preparation can help ...

If there’s one dish that unites Nigerians across regions, it’s pepper soup. It is spicy just like it sounds and is packed with aromatic herbs. Nigerian pepper soup is that comfort food that always ...

There are six recognized tastes that chefs mix and match to create complex flavors: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, savory, and our most recent addition to the list, fatty. Ideally, your recipe would have ...

HAYSVILLE, Kan. (KSNW) – A retired Haysville man has turned his backyard into a fiery paradise, cultivating some of the world’s hottest peppers. Mike Simpson has been gardening since the 1970s. Over ...

There is a line of reasoning that suggests eating something hot on a warm summer day makes it seem cooler. In this case "hot" refers to the spiciness of the food rather than to its temperature. The ...

Characteristics of bell peppers: Bell peppers are large compared to other types of peppers, and can be green, yellow, orange and red (and sometimes purple) in color. They’re not fully ripe in their ...

Hot peppers’ spicy heat is measured in Scoville heat units, named for Wilbur Scoville. The level of heat was originally determined by a panel of individual tasters. (Tetiana Kolubai/Dreamstime) Don’t ...