Article: HOT SAUCE MAKERS' BONFIRE IS BLAZING ALONG.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Correction notice)

Byline: DOUG BLACKBURN Staff writer

They blame their friends. Maybe the beer, too.

How else can they account for their food adventure that has become a business?

This much is certain: After the well-lubricated gang convinced Diane Barnes and Sue Bohmer the homemade hot sauce they were feasting on was too tasty for words, that this zesty concoction should be bottled and sold, the die was cast.

The two women rented a nearby restaurant kitchen, bought bushel baskets of jalapeno and habanero peppers along with industrial-size bags of sugar, and went to work. They tinkered and tasted, modified and tinkered and tasted some more, determined ...

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