When you savor hot sauce or a salsa do you know where the ingredients really come from? Chances are, you can find that most hot sauces or salsas have a Latin origin and a flavorful island spin.
This past weekend I attended the Second Annual New York City Hot Sauce Expo 2014 and found that while I was 'en fuego' like some other newbie "chileheads," I also was pleasantly surprised to find that there was an array of tasty and tolerable sauces that packed a flavorful punch, rather than just set my taste buds on fire.
"Are you a chilehead?" was the first question asked of me as I entered the Second Annual New York City Hot Sauce Expo 2014 by Sam McCannless from the International Society of Culinary Pyros, who donned a bright red Mohawk-like hair-do and was dressed in a flame-patterned suit.
