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05/08/2010 - Thousands Flock to Felbrigg Hall's Chilli Fiesta
The weather may have been cool and a bit wet but visitors to Felbrigg Hall yesterday were guaranteed a scorcher.The National Trust property's fourth annual Chilli Fiesta drew in more than 6000 people determined to test their taste buds to the limits.But as their eyes watered and cheeks reddened p...
05/08/2010 - Roulades, Bakes and Sweet Chilli Sausages Battle for British Turkey Gong
Stuffed turkey roulade crisp turkey and root vegetable bakes and sweet chilli flavour turkey sausages are among the new products shortlisted for a win in the British Turkey Awards 2010. The independent panel of judges will taste their way through eleven whole roast turkeys before choosing three ...
04/08/2010 - Pass The Chilli Sauce! Hot Foods May Lower Blood Pressure
Eating mouth-numbing foods such as fiery chilli peppers could help lower blood pressure a new study has suggested.Researchers found the active ingredient that gives the peppers their heat - a compound known as capsaicin - also relaxes the blood vessels.Hypertensive rats were fed a diet rich in caps...
04/08/2010 - Chilli Pepper Rockets Give Children Food For Thought
A group of Bosnian Roma children were given the chance to launch chilli pepper rockets with help from a Rolls-Royce aviation expert. Grant Gibson 23 visited Sinfin Community School to work on the three-week project with children from the school Sinfin Primary School and the Derby Bosnia-Herzego...
22/07/2010 - Cameroon Farmers Doubt Elephant Chilli Ball Idea
Farmers in Cameroon have expressed doubts over a UN suggestion to use pepper spray guns to stop stampeding elephants destroying crops. Frightened villagers often respond to attacks by killing the animals. The Food and Agriculture Organisation says plastic guns that fire ping-pong ...
21/07/2010 - Chilli Bugs Stocks The New Blair's Coffin Sauces!
Blair has done it again!Just when you thought the 'hot sauce world' couldn't come up with anything new....Blair Lazar (aka the sauce master!) has now created his new range of ultra hot sauces packaged in coffins!Bonkers or what!?You have to try Mega Death! ...
16/07/2010 - ChippidyDooDaas Chilli Jack
Warburtons has taken its baking expertise and created a serious contender to the healthier snack market.ChippidyDooDaas are based around baked pitta bread cut into bite-sized triangles. All the flavours are good but the Chilli Jack especially stands out. Source: thegrocer.co.uk ...
16/07/2010 - Sales Of Hot Chilli Pepper Spice Up
style="margin: 0pt 0pt 15px"> BRITISH food lovers are spicier than ever and have sparked a 600 per cent rise in chilli pepper sales. Red-hot demand from foodies has seen chilli farmers increase output. We were once lovers of bland food but cooks are hunting for even hotter thri...
14/07/2010 - Chilli Peppers Arrive At Vault
WENK'S Yellow Hots Pico de Gallos and the unpredictably hot San Juan 'Tsiles' chili peppers have arrived safely at a 'doomsday' vault in the Arctic. Democratic Senator Ben Cardin says he and other members of Congress delivered seeds from the pepper varieties on Sunday to a Norwegian...
14/07/2010 - Will the Red Hot Chili Pill REALLY Burn Away Your Flab?
When Toni Withers 37 saw an advert for the diet pill Capsiplex it seemed like the answer to her prayers. A former professional gymnast she had stopped competing at the age of 17 and now ten years later was still battling with the after-effects of years of a near-starvation diet. 'We had a Russia...
11/07/2010 - Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated in Latin America and by Latin Americans living in the United States and Canada. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The ...
11/07/2010 - Chilli Price
The price of chilli which has more than doubled in recent weeks has caused a major dip in sales of the produce at local markets. Currently chilli is sold at RM20 to RM25 per kilo said vegetable vendor Rumani Kasdan 61 who has been a trader for three decades. She said the price of all varieties &...
16/06/2010 - Chilli Thrip Closes Kew Gardens
Minute tropical beast the Chilli Thrip is forcing closure of the giant palm house at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.The invasion of chilli thrip which can transmit a host of plant viruses forced Kew to close the building every Tuesday afternoon until the beast is blitzed. "There is currently no end...
07/06/2010 - Chilli Attack On Police
Three undertrials today escaped from a court compound in Chandernagore with the help of three of their bike-borne friends who threw chilli powder into the eyes of the police. As the constables cried out in pain unde...
26/05/2010 - Couple's Chilli Farm Proves To Be Controversial Success
High on the flanks of southern Dartmoor a young couple have been living secret lives while developing a hot and spicy business – but now their secret is out and they find themselves amid a storm that could have ramifications across the British countryside. Phil and Kay Palmer have been g...
17/05/2010 - Chilli Spill Sparks 999 Alert in Birmingham City Centre
FIREFIGHTERS and supermarket bosses were left with a red-hot problem – over the cause of a suspected chemical alert which left part of Birmingham city centre sealed off. Residents and workers were evacuated when the Tesco Metro store in New Street was shut down after six workers complained...
14/05/2010 - Chilli Farmers Turn Heat on
class="body"> The owners of a thriving Dartmoor-based chilli farm claim that a local planning authority is hampering the growth of an enterprise that "ticks all the boxes" environmentally. Phil and Kay Palmer have been specialising in growing red-hot peppers in two polytunnels at ...
06/05/2010 - How To Grow Chillies
Easier to grow than tomatoes chilli peppers will add hot colour to your garden and hot flavour to your cooking.Sow seeds into a pot of compost covering them with 5mm of sifted compost. Lightly firm down with the bottom of another pot then gently water the seeds.Place a sheet of newspaper over the po...
04/05/2010 - An Encounter With The World's Hottest Chilli
In a covered market in the city of Imphal the air pungent with fresh and fermented produce a young man holds up his hands to reveal what looks like a cluster of dried berry-red flowers. They immediately smell herbal complex and very powerful. "These are the dry ones. The fresh ones only c...
29/04/2010 - Chilli Chocolate Meatballs Kick Start Waitrose World Cup Bid
Waitrose hopes to cash in on World Cup fever this week with the launch of a new range of meatballs – including a chilli and chocolate flavour. The supermarket has unveiled five different flavours inspired by nations competing in South Africa this June. As well as the Mexican-themed chilli a...
28/04/2010 - Chilli Capsaicin Key to Killing Pain
Studying chilli peppers is helping scientists create a new type of painkiller which could stop pain at its source.A team at the University of Texas says a substance similar to capsaicin which makes chilli peppers hot is found in the human body at sites of pain. And blocking the production of thi...
28/04/2010 - Chilli Peppers Help Burn Away The Fat
Researchers have found that the heat generated by peppers can actually increase your consumption of calories and "oxidise" layers of fat. And for those that don't like the "burn" they have discovered that an equivalent of the main ingredient "capsaicin" occ...
23/04/2010 - Are You Brave Enough To Try A Chocolate Chilli Drink?
CADBURY World is turning up the heat by challenging visitors to taste its new chocolate chilli drink as part of a special Aztec themed weekend. The weekend which takes place on April 24 and 25 offers visitors the chance take part in a host of Aztec themed activities and talks including me...
23/04/2010 - Yorkshire Partnership Creates Chilli Jam Pork Pie
NEWS of a partnering between two Yorkshire food companies is hot stuff. Knaresborough-based Robinsons Pork Butchers has partnered with The Chilli Jam Man to create The Chilli Jam Pork Pie containing the world’s three hottest chillies. Mick Robinson owner of Robinsons Pork Butchers me...
21/04/2010 - Cooking with Chillies
LEADVILLE — Chili and music will be free in Leadville courtesy of Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.The Tesla String Quartet will be in town for a week-long residency performing free concerts at area school...
22/02/2010 - Jersey City Chili Cook-Off Winners
Take ground beef habanero and chipotle chilies Tabasco onion and garlic and what do you have? One prize-winning chili. Oh and don't forget the Newcastle Brown Ale. "I put a whole six-pack in there'' Ryan Caldwell said of the chili that won the judges' choice award for best individual cook at th...
22/02/2010 - Chili Heads Revel in Pain of Peppers
Marc Turner licked the tiny drop of brown goo from the spoon and turned to the man standing beside him at the North Market's Fiery Foods Festival yesterday. He wanted to say that the hot sauce was good but when he opened his mouth to speak the sound that came out was something between a croak and a ...
18/02/2010 - Domino's Launches Its Hottest Pizza Yet
After one of the coldest British winters in living memory Domino’s is this month putting a bit of spice back into our lives with the launch of its hottest pizza yet – Meltdown-The Revenge.Set to tingle the taste buds of those who are brave enough to take on this fiery pizza the new addit...
18/02/2010 - Free Meal Scheme For Chilli Farmers
The Agriculture Market Yard Committee which had launched free meals scheme two years ago for farmers began the scheme on Thursday for the current season with a number of farmers bringing their produce to sell. Agriculture Market Yard Committee Chairman Lella Appireddy formally launched the free meal...
16/02/2010 - Chilli Powder Attack on two toddlers in Sydney
A MAN has been arrested following the assault of two toddlers with chilli powder in Sydney's inner west police say. The 40-year-old man alleg...
13/02/2010 - Interesting Chilli Facts
Did you know....?• A teaspoon of red chile powder meets the RDA for Vitamin A.• The heat from chile peppers (called capsaicin) is used in making many arthritis medications.• Chili peppers are also a good source of Iron Potassium Fiber Vitamin A and Vitamin C.• Green c...
09/02/2010 - Brewery Launches Chilli Beer
St Austell Brewery has launched a new ale designed to add it a bit of spice to the lives of real ale fans across the south west.Cockleroaster - a chilli and chocolate infused stout – is the first new beer in a seasonal ale programme launched by St Austell Brewery for 2010.The Brewery has team...
