Article: Passion for hot sauce kindles business.(Business)

Byline: RETAIL NOTEBOOK By Joe Mosley The Register-Guard

SPRINGFIELD - Nick Lindauer's latest Internet enterprise is truly en fuego. It's red hot, smokin' and - to sum things up - more than a little warm.

Lindauer, a 23-year-old on-line entrepreneur, sold his body jewelry Web site a few months ago to launch a new one devoted to the procurement of his first love - hot sauce.

We're talking chili. Cayenne. Habanero. Jalapeno. Even wasabi, and other mysterious implements of gastronomic torture.

"The first hot sauce I tried, I started sweating and got that little endorphin rush," Lindauer says, figuring that must have been about 15 years ...

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