It all started in 1964 in a bar in Buffalo, NY. Teressa Bellissimo, co-owner of the Anchor Bar, was cooking up a snack for her son and his rowdy friends when she went out on a limb and dunked some...
Grab your molcajete, it’s time to talk salsa. It doesn’t have to be Super Bowl Sunday, Cinco de Mayo, or Taco Tuesday to enjoy a spicy, satisfying salsa. This condiment is so much more than a chip dip, and if...
To break the code to salsa’s start, you need to trace its existence back thousands of years to its creation—we’re talking pre-1500s era. As far as salsa’s popularity, “thanks” are due to the people who started it and the pop...
Spoiler alert: Improper storage reduces the shelf life of every food, including your favorite hot sauce. The practice of food storage has been around for a way, way long time, so by now you probably know what stores cold and...
We’d like to take a moment to openly mock 16th century Europeans, who thought the tomato was deadly. The “poison apple,” they said. “It will kill you,” they said. Ha, ha! A life without tomatoes is a fate worse than...
If you love sriracha style hot sauce, you’ve probably heard about the sriracha shortage, and as a result, you’re inevitably panicking. Sure, the toilet paper shortage of 2020 was rough, but at least we had baby wipes, bidets, and all...
Let’s be honest, there are many obvious (and awesome) ways to use BBQ sauce—as a dip for chicken nuggets, to sauce up your grilled meats, and to make those little meatball appetizers that have been at every party since…well, forever....
Though we highly doubt any of our BBQ sauces will go unused for long enough to need this information, sometimes condiments get shoved to the back of the fridge or cupboard, fall on their sides, and effectively go missing from...
The main ingredient in barbecue sauce—which we shall henceforth refer to by its street name, “BBQ sauce”—depends on the type of sauce you’re making: Kansas City-style? North Carolina-style? Do you want South Carolina barbecue flavor or Texas/Southwest sauce? Different styles...
