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Article: BALL OF FIRE CHIP HEARN'S HOT-SAUCE EMPIRE PEDDLES SOME 3,000 MIXTURES OF BOTTLED HEAT. MORE AMAZING IS THAT HE'S SAMPLED NEARLY EVERY ONE.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2003
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Yo, Chip! Chip Hearn! Sit yourself down over here and pull up a
bottle or two of hot sauce. After all, you've tasted more of this
lethal stuff than just about anyone who's still got a tongue to talk
about it. You're a large man with a large appetite for chiles, Chip.
Dig in.
We're sitting at the 150-bottle tasting bar inside Peppers,
Hearn's hot-sauce emporium, and this sure ain't the bayou, y'all. The
store is located in a suburban-style shopping mall in Rehoboth Beach,
Delaware, a resort town that's dead calm during the off-season. It's
part of the 50-year-old Hearn's hot-sauce empire, which also includes
wholesale, mail order, and Internet sales (www.peppers.com). True,
his is not a name ...