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The
Demise of Hot Sauce
by Laurence B. Molloy |
Hot sauce has gone underground! Far from the halcyon days in the 90's when certain stores sold only hot sauce and your mail box was stuffed with hot sauce catalogs, hot sauce has dwindled in importance and propinquity. Many restaurants do not provide any hot sauce. Most restaurants carry only plain Tabasco. Gramercy Tavern serves Tabasco in a small bowl with a spoon in order to disguise its use even on pulled pork barbeque. Some delis on the Upper West Side dilute Tabasco with water. Oddly, the hot sauce aficionado
has both a larger variety of choices from main stream hot sauce manufacturers
while smaller artisanal providers are slowly disappearing. In grocery
stores, McIlhenny's Tabasco now comes in original, chipotle,
sweet and garlic flavors all made with the traditional Tabasco
pepper base. And Cholula, which makes a delicious red sauce
made out of pequin peppers, now produces a flavored chili-garlic
sauce dumbed down with chile de arbol pepper. On the other
hand, Jamaica's Pickapeppa red hot sauce has disappeared from grocery
shelves and only the mild and sweet Pickapeppa meat sauce remains
available in stores. But you can get all the Pickapeppa sauces
online. |