Hot Sauce History 101

Things may be heating up for hot sauces, but they'venewspapers as early as 1807, according to some
been around since humans first realized they could eatreports. In 1849, England's Lea & Perrins
chile peppers. Bottles containing hot sauce have beenWorcestershire Sauce was first imported into the
recovered from archaeological digs as well asUnited States from Great Britain.Many of the first
shipwrecks, according to "The Hot Sauce Bible," Thehomegrown hot sauces in the United States came
Crossing Press, 1996.We have had a long love affairfrom the South. Cajun cuisine and other fiery ethnic
with hot sauces in the United States. Advertisementsfoods fueled the drive to make hot sauces.
for cayenne sauces appeared in Massachusetts