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The Happiness Diet

Women’s Health Magazine

Staying away from processed foods can have a positive effect on more than just your physical well-being.

Chile Peppers, These fruits are made spicy by the fat-soluble molecule called capsaicin. This molecule is absorbed by fat. If you add chili powder to oil and vinegar, the fat in the oil absorbs all of the capsaicin. It’s why a mouthful of guacamole or milk will cool down a burning mouth, while water or beer is unable to put out the fire.

Some Like it Hot

Curious what makes someone invent their own hot sauce? Correspondent Nathan Cobb of the Boston Globe had a peek into David Ashley’s process to creating hot sauces so many have started to treasure.

Pepper people: Tabasco’s for wimps – Boston Herald, Friday, April 28, 1995

The alleged crime: assault.  The setting: a late-night Denny’s in Lebanon, N. H.  The weapon: Tabasco sauce. Some like it hot. Unfortunately for Michael A. Towne, some don’t.  Formerly a cook at the Denny’s Towne became a pepper perpetrator as of Feb. 7, when he was accused of dosing the ham-and-egg orders of two Vermont [...]