Words and Photos by Robert Staudhammer As I wandered the bustling streets Yogyakarta, Indonesia, I caught word of a rather interesting local delicacy. In the open markets crowding the edges of the famed Malioboro street, I started my search. My imagination pushed forward my tired feet and eventually, in a confluence of pantomime, optimistic suggestion, and a dose of good …
Fiery Foods Bookazine by Dave DeWitt Now Available!
My latest publication, entitled “Popular Plates: Fiery Foods” is now available on all the major newsstands in the U.S., including Barnes & Noble, Home Depot, Borders, Costco–all the big box stores. The publisher, Source Interlink Media has printed 200,000 copies, which is by far the largest print run of any of my publications. Essentially, this is a book in magazine …
For Carnivores Only: The Meating Place of Smoke & Spice
By Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach The first outdoor cook to use chile peppers during a barbecue was Jaguar Claw, a somewhat hen-pecked paleo-Native American who lived in the Amazon Basin about 20,000 years ago. He had dispatched his prey with his spear, had butchered the world’s largest rodent with his new flint carving knife into chunks, and was contemplating …
Burn! Magazine is now the Burn! Blog
Dear Burn! Reader: We have made the decision to discontinue Burn! as a stand-alone digital magazine. We’re going to be continuing Burn! as a blog at www.burn-blog.com, and will be moving feature-length material to the Fiery Foods & BBQ SuperSite at www.fiery-foods.com. The SuperSite is undergoing a major redesign and retooling, and we feel it makes more sense to keep …
Dave’s Chile Podcast Series Continues with the God of Capsaicin
With new superhot chiles emerging in what seems like every other month, the coveted title of “Hottest Chile” is up for grabs once again. But who is the best judge of a superhot, anyway? Chemical engineer and capsaicin expert Marlin Bensinger doesn’t think that the Guinness World Records people are qualified to make the call. Dave DeWitt hears him out …
Featured Recipe: Greek Easter Egg Bread
With Easter just around the corner, our editors set out to find unusual recipes to spice up the holiday! Mouth-watering rabbit and spicy deviled eggs are just a few of the world-class dishes we’re cooking up this year. You can find the whole menu in the April issue, out now! Here’s one of our favorite (and most attractive) new Easter …
Cooking “Stone Soup”
Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico Down here at the tip of the Baja California peninsula, I have stumbled across an pre-Hispanic chile pepper soup that uses river stones as the heat for cooking. The Chinoteco tribe of Pueblo San Felipe Usila was a fishing based culture, and their fishermen used pear-shaped guajes, or gourd pots, told hold their fresh …
