The Hot Sauce Madness Love Burn Suite
Description:... The Hot Sauce Madness Love Burn Suite is a book of poems that revolves around the beloved and sometimes notorious culture of hot sauce and hot peppers. Its 814 rhyming couplets delve deeply into that rich and addicting world, whether they focus on peppers' flavor, pain, linguistics, or history. Come take a bite out of these verses, and see if you can handle the heat.
1912: pharmacist Wilbur
Lincoln Scoville first
measured
the "heat" of peppers
(the word's in quotes
because there's no
actual heat in this
equation, just spiciness,
which hoodwinks
our bodies into thinking
physical flames are
licking our
tongues, throat, lips).
Chilies aren't caliente, which
implies
heat from an actual fire,
but picante,
the word we
use for heat that arises
from spice.
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