Changpool, India – The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chile pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts ...

The ghost chile, also known as bhut jolokia, clocks in at more than 1 million units on the Scoville scale, the gauge used to measure capsaicin, the component in peppers responsible for their heat. To ...

IMPHAL, India — Mexican jalapenos, Sichuan mala peppers, African kambuzi — mere child's play. Although many places claim to have the maddest, baddest chile this side of Hades, northeast India's "ghost ...

Blue skies and the aromas of caramelized pork drew crowds to downtown’s Grand Park on Saturday when some of Los Angeles’ best taco makers gathered for L.A. Taco‘s annual Taco Madness fest. Long lines ...

Ghost Chili Mexican Grill, named for the most potent of chili peppers, is serving a Tex-Mex menu in the Islandia space that formerly housed Starbucks. The concept is similar to that of Chipotle ...

BOSTON (CBS) - A local restaurant is upping the ante on the whole 'sign a waiver' challenge (Hell Week at the East Coast Grill in Cambridge is already famous for food so hot, it requires a waiver).

HUMBERSTONE, Chile -- Atacama is a fearsome, ugly desert in northern Chile, a vast territory devoid even of weeds and scattered with hundreds of ghost towns. Ancient, abandoned smokestacks are almost ...