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Article: HOT stuff; Hot sauce, which once used to work its way to the back of the cupboard with the questionable home-made marmalade, is in the forefront of kitchen commodities now, and in vast profusion. Besides being hot, it's hot.(TASTE)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- April 9, 1997
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