Ed Currie recently set a new Guinness World Record for hottest chili pepper, with Pepper X. In doing so, he broke his own record, set a decade ago with the Carolina Reaper. Currie, the owner of ...

PuckerButt Pepper Company founder Ed Currie answers the internet's sizzling questions about peppers. Why do only mammals taste capsaicin? What kind of peppers are used in military grade pepper spray?

Ed Currie, the chili pepper guru known as Smokin' Ed, has topped his own record for developing the world's hottest pepper. This past week, Currie introduced the world to Pepper X, his latest ...

It must be a strange experience to be Ed Currie, a man with such passion–and superhuman pain tolerance–that he’s managed to carve out a niche entirely his own, even among a larger community of ...

FORT MILL — A peppery haze is omnipresent in the back of a rural warehouse, causing one's eyes to water and nose to tingle. Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, said he doesn’t even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He's looking to beat his own world record. Food & Wine / Puckerbutt Pepper Co. The man who developed the “hottest pepper in the ...

Born in Alabama, educated in the U.S. and in Europe, Martin lives in Alabama and in Prague. Fluent in German, he is at work on a history of the East German secret police for Alfred A. Knopf publishers ...

Smokin’ Ed Currie, founder and president of PuckerButt Pepper Company, visits Epicurious to taste and rank 10 of the hottest chile peppers on the planet. As the pepper breeder who created the famous ...

PEARCE — By the side of a rural two-lane road, about 50 miles north of the border with Mexico and in the middle of a desert valley where groundwater is fought over, sprout the seeds of the nation's ...