You may like spicy foods, but do you think you could handle the hottest pepper in the world? In the world of record-breaking hot ones, there's a new sheriff in town – the Guinness World Records ...

Learn about the heat level of habanero peppers and discover more facts about this spicy chile from Mexico. What is the heat ...

It can be difficult for those of us with an aversion to especially spicy sensations to understand the appeal of paying top-dollar to eat something that can make you sweat and cry uncontrollably. But ...

FORT MILL — A peppery haze is omnipresent in the back of a rural warehouse, causing one's eyes to water and nose to tingle. Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, said he doesn’t even ...

FORT MILL, S.C. — Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that’s hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has broken his ...

There is a line of reasoning that suggests eating something hot on a warm summer day makes it seem cooler. In this case "hot" refers to the spiciness of the food rather than to its temperature. The ...

Spicy food lovers will congregate Friday at Social Beer Garden HTX in Midtown for Spicy Planet HTX: Hot Heads Expo, a first-of-its-kind event in Houston highlighted by a chili pepper competition. Brad ...