CHILES IN THE NEWS

Eatmorechiles.com News:

The Arizona Chile Poster is HOT! This SPICY fine art chili poster isn't just for chile lovers in Arizona... it's for everyone! A number of posters have recently been sent not just throughout the USA, but across the globe! Just this week two more great Arizona Chile Posters traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark! No matter where you are in the world, why not make the Arizona Chile Poster a part of your home or a wonderful gift for family and friends!

With 2010 starting off on the FREEZING side of life, why not HEAT things up with a tasty dish using some HOT & SPICY chile peppers! Got a great chile pepper recipe? Why not submit it for a chance to win a free Arizona Chile Pepper Poster and be entered to be a part of our chile pepper cookbook due out in 2010! Or, if you need some ideas, check out our Recipes page for a few of our favorite dishes!

If you have a chili cookoff or other chile event you would like included in our quarterly cookoff list, fire on over an email with the event name, info, location, and contact info and we'd be happy to post it with the other upcoming chili cook-offs and chile events! Whether you're from Arizona, New Mexico, the Southwest, throughout the United States, or across the world, just click on the contact link at the top of any of our pages here at EatMoreChiles.com. We look forward to hearing from you and don't forget to EAT MORE CHILES!

Our friends from Haunts of Hidden River Haunted Hayrides in Brownsburg, Indiana are sponsoring the Haunted Chili Cookoff October 10, 2009 at the Arbuckle Acres Park in Brownsburg! If you would like to participate or to find out more information on the event, visit their website here and click on the red chile pepper on the right side of the page. All the money raised during this event goes straight back to the town to help pay for Christmas lights, fireworks, and other festive things around the community. Check them out!

**A special thanks to all those who visited the Eatmorechiles.com booth at the Route 66 Regional in Flagstaff, AZ and the Arizona State Chili Cookoff in Payson, Arizona. Talk about a wonderful weekend-- beautiful weather and droves of great people-- all helped to make for a successful, and insanely fun weekend for the crew at Eatmorechiles.com. We would like to give an extra special thanks to Paul Whitney in Flagstaff and Linda Mathiesen from Mazatzal Casino in Payson for putting on 2 awesome events! Check back soon for updates on the upcoming events you can spot the Arizona Chile Poster at and visit the crew from Eatmorechiles.com. Stay tuned!**

June 13th, 2009 - The boys from Eatmorechiles.com will be at the Route 66 Regional this weekend at Thorpe Park in Flagstaff, Arizona. Come check our booth out, say hello, and see the Arizona Chile Poster first hand!

June 14th, 2009 - Again, Eatmorechiles.com will have a booth at the 2009 Arizona State Chili Cookoff at Mazatzal Casino in Payson, AZ. Stop b y and pick up a couple of chile posters!

International News:

Only Time Magazine could come up with this one:  Chile Peppers & Global Warming. Duh?!

Here's one for "Don't Try This At Home!" A chef dies after eating a super hot chile in England.

What do chili pepper pain receptors and irritable bowel syndrome have in common? Yup, as you probably guessed, this research comes straight from the United Kingdom.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the United States ranked fifth in pepper production in 2007, the latest year gathered. China is by far the largest producer, followed by Turkey and Mexico.

Time Magazine headline writers had fun with this one: Red Hot Chili Peppers turn 6,000 years old! Sounds like a tabloid headline, but this is a little bit of science and a little bit of history.

Okay, maybe the debate over which is the hottest pepper on earth is over. Well, at least for now.

Mexicans are getting a little hot under the collar over an invasion of Chinese chiles, USA Today reports. Ay Carumba!

National News:

Most of us who enjoy eating chile peppers do so for their great taste and health benefits, but most of all for their HEAT! However, for those who aren't tough enough to handle chili pepper spice, here's a link with a few tips from Indiana's Newscenter on how to cool HOT chiles down.

Here are a few interesting tips on growing your own red hot chili peppers.

Is the new United States President Barack Obama, a chili fan? You betcha! Obama stopped by Washington D.C.'s famous Ben's Chili Bowl just before taking office. But, would President Obama eat free?

Straight from the heart of Texas, scientists from Texas A&M have spent the better part of the past few years helping to develop new hybrid chile plants with intent to help U.S. chili farmers produce a tastier, healthier, and more productive chilli crop.

As it turns out, you better think twice before attempting to fight off an army of attacking naked mole rats with chile peppers or pepper spray. And you thought you were safe!

Forget Tylenol. Forget Advil. Forget Morphine! A new hot chili-pepper-based anesthetic may offer better pain relief during childbirth, surgery, or other painful situations than conventional anesthetics, CBS News reports.

We all know the burn chile peppers can give us. But what does that have in common with tarantula venom?

Heat is good. Chile heat, that is! A chile's ability to burn protects the chile itself AND helps our species as well. Sounds like a win-win to us.

And, along this same line of "survival of the fittest" is an interesting piece on peppers defending themselves from infections and insects, from Talk of the Nation radio show. In addition, the University of Florida paid a visit to Arizona to study this survival mechanism.

The United States International Trade Commission published their November 2007 report monitoring U.S. pepper import and exports. You can download the full .PDF of the report here.

So really, what is the correct spelling of Chiles or Chilis or is it Chilies? From one of our favorite spice blogs at Spicelines.com

Arizona News:

Arizona had been working on a new state slogan to entice tourists-- and their money-- to visit the hot state. This joke web site pulls some of the funnier slogans from the story in the Arizona Republic that didn't quite make the cut, including several chili pepper references. 

Chile Peppers: The Science Behind The Spice - a National Public Radio interview with Arizona chile farmer Ed Curry and Jean England Neubauer, owner of Santa Cruz Chili and Spice Company.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department posts an Arizona chili plant abstract .PDF online. Not very exciting, but a lot of information for that extreme chili pepper lover.

The Phoenix area's East Valley Tribune turns to a chili logo to represent its own web site just as the chile represents a taste of the Southwest.

Where does the good stuff in salsa come from? Find out from this NPR Science Friday program and video. If you've had supermarket salsa, you've probably eaten one of Ed Curry's chile peppers. He's a top pepper breeder in Southeast Arizona just down the road from where Geronimo and Cochise once played cowboys-and-indians. Visit Ed's farm and find out how the heat gets in chiles.

National Public Radio's Weekend Edition features a piece on Arizona's Wild Chile Botanical Preserve and a closer look at the chiltepin pepper.