You snack on bell peppers, you love the heat of jalapeño in homemade watermelon salsa and you’ve dabbled with poblanos, but you’re ready to branch out. Good news: There are approximately 4,000 ...

Aug. 31—Do you have decorative Halloween or Easter chiles in your home? Or are you growing Big Jim peppers in your backyard? Chile varieties like these can be found at New Mexico State University's ...

In Costa Rica, the chile pepper is very popular with the locals, particularly as an ornamental plant that doubles as a spicy condiment for meals. Chiles are truly native plants of the neotropics that ...

There’s a wide world of chile peppers out there. But mild bell peppers, the scorching hot Carolina reaper and everything in between are all the same genus Capsicum. “So there’s obviously a ton of ...

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 ...

Each year, it seems as though our local garden centers are offering more varieties of chili peppers to choose from. How do you know what to buy? How can you use them or preserve them? Hot peppers, or ...