The Spicy World We Live In

This blog was spawned with the purpose of eating in mind, specifically eating things that are Spicy (hence the name). In this delicious pursuit of all things spicy, it will be my goal to track down all sorts of spicy dishes and eat them, working my way up the "spice-ladder," the eventual goal being to come face to face with - and conquer - the hottest pepper in the world: The Ghost Chili.



Intimidating looking, no? But that's the fun in it. We can start off scaring everyone with how utterly bad-ass that pepper looks, and then move along to something a little more manageable, for now. For the first post, my (currently nonexistent audience) will require a history lesson on spice and the "Scoville Heat Scale". In 1912, Chemist William Scoville developed a revolutionary method that could be used to measure the heat of chili peppers. This scale measures the heat intensity of peppers, from the bell pepper:



- A cute and sweet pepper with a Scoville Unit rating of zero - to the Naga Jolokia (The Ghost Chili) that has a rating of over ONE MILLION SCOVILLE (Holy Crap!). So there it is, with my mission laid out before me and a constant urge to find the next delicious spicy dish, I begin my quest to find the best hot food available, and to conquer that scary ass ghost chili.