One of the pains of gardening is that with annual vegetables, you have to start over each year. Sure, you move forward w...

It took me a while to warm to pepper, at least as a child. My younger sister, who called pepper “hot salt,” loved it so...

Recently, my stepmother made a batch of pepper jelly I can only describe as “violent.” “Yes. I should have warned you,”...

Earlier this week, I made some violent chili. I confused , and poured a quarter cup of pulverized ancho chilis into a po...

Coleslaw can be a tricky thing. Bad slaws are watery and bland, but a good one provides a perfect sweet-and-tangy, crunc...

With the exception of salt, pepper is the most common and ubiquitous seasoning in American cooking. The berries themselv...

Medical professionals are raising the alarm that the tear gas and pepper sprays used during recent protests could increa...

Pepper spray (including the brand name Mace) causes extreme stinging and burning in the eyes and nose. If you’ve been pe...

Cyprus riot police used pepper spray on Saturday to thwart Turkish Cypriot protesters trying to shove their way through...