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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...herb salsa, roasted oysters with green jalapeno strips and chile-laced chocolate cake. Amateur cooks have joined the craze with the help of more than 20 cookbooks devoted exclusively to hot and spicy Mexican, Thai and Cajun foods. Mail-order outlets like Hot Stuff in New York City, Mo Hotta Mo Betta Co. in San Luis Obispo, California, and Hatch Chile Express in Hatch, New Mexico, sell fresh chile pods, powders and jars of salsa, as well as such kitschy pepperphernalia as chile-shaped fishing lures, earrings and ashtrays. "It used to be our customers would look confused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Like It Hot | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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