A couple weeks ago, I asked readers if they had any suggestions on what to do with some dried, Mexican chiles I had purchased at a local grocery store. I bought a bag of cascabel chiles and a bag of ...

Yesterday I picked up two bags of dried chiles from a small Mexican grocery on Prospect Road near Dixie Highway. The place had a small but decent selection of dried spices, but the peppers were far ...

There are so many kinds of red-pepper flakes. Getting to know them all can give your dishes a glow up. By viewing dried chile flakes not just by heat level but by flavor, home cooks can wander a world ...

This story was originally published in MIX magazine on March 3, 2012. By Ivy Manning You wouldn't be caught dead with a tin of preground pepper, and your nutmeg is always freshly ground from the ...

You've probably stumbled upon recipes for both chili verde and chili con carne, or green and red chili, but what separates ...

Dried peppers do last quite a while, but they can still get ruined if you don't store them correctly. Here's how long they'll ...

Even though the chiles are potent, the vinegar and coconut milk in this dish bring it down many notches to make a hot, sweet, creamy curry. Ladle it over mounds of cooked rice for a southern ...

Eating at a restaurant in New Mexico usually starts with the choice between red or green chiles, a question for which there is no wrong answer. Red chiles bring the heat, green chiles bring the flavor ...

Chile peppers are such a deep, essential feature of so many food cultures that it seems hard to believe they occurred only in South and Central America until brought to the Caribbean by seafaring ...

Raised in an Armenian household in Santa Clara, Levon Minassian recalls trips to the Middle Eastern spice shop where his parents bought Aleppo pepper, the mild, fruity red-chile flakes named after the ...