The difference between chile powder with an "e" and chili powder with an "i" is not a matter of phonetics, like tomato, tomahto. They are not the same ingredient. As a food editor, when I review ...

Colorado’s dry pepper blends are edging out hot sauces in my kitchen Flatiron Pepper Co. is among those pushing dried chile-pepper blends to new, deliciously spicy heights.

Chili peppers — chiles — turn up the heat and the health benefits of many cuisines. The chile was named pepper by Christopher Columbus on a Caribbean exploration when he assumed, based on the ...

By viewing dried chile flakes not just by heat level but by flavor, ... Mr. Minassian, 34, grows fresh Aleppo peppers and many other chile varieties, dries them and processes them into flakes.

If you want an even more complex dish and don’t mind a little extra work, use whole dried chiles instead of ground. After ripping off the stems and dumping out the seeds, soak them in very hot ...

His dad moved from Oklahoma to Arizona in 1952 and started with cotton and some chile peppers on the side. But the chiles were always variable, kind of a mess, Curry says.