Artisan Pickle Company Worth Mentioning

Expansion, can-do attitude get Epic Pickles out of the garage By DAVID WEISSMAN 505-5431/@DispatchDavid / www.yorkdispatch.com Robert Seufert, owner of Epic Pickles, chops cucumbers last year at his Windsor Township home. After four years, Seufert is expanding his pickle business to a former bakery in Yoe. (Dispatch file photo) Epic Pickles will soon be moving […]

Just dill with it: Yinzers to soak up sun and salt at Picklesburgh

Gherkins galore Pickling is taking the community by storm. Posted: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:51 pm Chris Estes / Staff Writer | The Pitt News – www.pittnews.com Leigh White is looking forward to the “ginormous” floating pickle that will be attached to the Rachel Carson Bridge later this month. “We were noticing the cool, innovative restaurants around […]

Can this man create a more potent jalapeno?

COURTNEY SHEA Special to The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Jul. 14, 2015 10:24AM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Jul. 14, 2015 10:27AM EDT   Before his retirement two weeks ago, Aziz Baameur was a farm adviser at the University of California. For the past couple of years, Baameur has been preoccupied with one particular project: the hunt […]

Jalapenos will again get Fiesta Mexicana off to a hot start

This will be the 25th year for the jalapeno-eating contest Posted: July 13, 2015 – 5:14pm By Bill Blankenship   – www.cjonline.com bill.blankenship@cjonline.com Want to disperse a huge crowd? Try dousing them with pepper spray. Want to attract a huge crowd? Offer them the chance to watch some foolhardy folk down a bunch of red hot chili peppers. […]

Antioch man eats 52 jalapenos in 10 minutes to win contest

By Denys Bucksten News-Sun Antioch 52-year-old consumed his age in the spicy-hot peppers A cool and calm Antioch man crushed the field Saturday in Mundelein Community Days’ Jalapeno Eating Contest, consuming his age, 52 of the crunchy, spicy-hot peppers. Mike Meyer was among eight entrants, in two flights, who tested their intestines in the contest, sponsored […]