Promoting Independent Producers of Hot Sauce and Other Spicy Products

We here at Spicy Food Reviews want to do what we can to promote the many small and medium independent companies producing hot sauce, salsa, seasonings, and other spicy products so we are offering to run a promotional post on your offerings at our site. We also offer advertising for independent producers on our site at an economical price. If you would like to send a promotional post, there will be no charge to run that and we will also put it on our social media sites. If you are interested in advertising, you can find out more at that here.

Heres’ How It Works:

Send us a short post highlighting your products (see sample post below), and we’ll feature it on SpicyFoodReviews.com and share it across our social media platforms (Blue Sky, Facebook, Xwitter). In return, we simply ask that you:

Follow us on at least one of our social media platforms (many of you already do), and
Share one or more of our posts on your own social channels.

We’ll be posting one to two features per week as part of this promotion and will continue sharing each post multiple times over a 30-day period to maximize exposure.

New! Spicy Food Business Directory

In conjunction with the promo, we’re building a directory of hot sauce and spicy food vendors to be published on our website. Each listing will include:

Your company name
Up to six of your signature products
Your location
Website
Contact email and/or social media links (multiple welcome)

Below is a sample of the type of promotional posts we are looking for. Feel free to make your own tweaks to the format as needed and we look forward to helping you promote your products. You can submit your post to us at spicyfoodreviews@gmail.com and/or contact us there if you have questions. And if you would like to submit products for us to review, we are always welcome to trying new spicy offerings!

Sample Post:

Tabasco Sauce

About Our Company

TABASCO® Brand products are made by McIlhenny Company, founded by Edmund McIlhenny in 1868 on Avery Island, Louisiana. It was here that he developed the recipe for TABASCO® Original Red Pepper Sauce that’s been passed down from generation to generation. To this day, the company is still family-owned and -operated on that very same island.

The diet of the Reconstruction South was bland and monotonous, especially by Louisiana standards. So Edmund McIlhenny decided to create a pepper sauce to give the food some flavor and excitement.

McIlhenny grew his first commercial pepper crop in 1868. The next year, he sent out 658 bottles of sauce at one dollar apiece wholesale to grocers around the Gulf Coast, particularly in New Orleans. He labeled it “Tabasco,” a word of Mexican Indian origin believed to mean “place where the soil is humid” or “place of the coral or oyster shell.” McIlhenny secured a patent in 1870, and TABASCO® Sauce began its journey to set the culinary world on fire. Sales grew, and by the late 1870s, he sold his sauce throughout the U.S. and even in Europe.

McIlhenny packaged the sauce in small cologne-type bottles with sprinkler fitments, which he then corked and sealed in green wax. The sprinkler fitment was important because his pepper sauce was concentrated and best used when sprinkled, not poured. Though we no longer seal our bottles with wax, the sauce inside is every bit as pungent as the one McIlhenny first bottled back in 1868.

Today, nearly 150 years later, TABASCO® Sauce, the basic recipe, the process by which it’s made, and the ingredients remain virtually unchanged. Now the aging process for the mash is longer – up to three years in white oak barrels – and the vinegar is high-quality distilled vinegar.

About Our Products

We’ve come a long way from our beginnings in 1868. While the Original Red Pepper Sauce stays true to the history of TABASCO® Brand, the TABASCO Family of Flavors® features 9 varieties of high-quality pepper sauces. From mild to wild, there’s something for everyone.

Tabasco® Brand Original Red Sauce: The hot sauce that started it all. Our classic pepper sauce is beloved all over the world and sold in over 195 countries and territories. Endlessly versatile, enhance the flavor of any food with a dash of our signature sauce.

Green Jalapeño Sauce: This sauce adds a signature zest to a variety of dishes and recipes. Mild but full of flavor, you can enjoy the taste of bright, crisp jalapeños in every bite

Cayenne Garlic Sauce: A zesty blend of three different peppers—smooth cayenne pepper, oak-aged pepper mash, and mellow red jalapeño, all infused with savory garlic.

Chipotle Pepper Sauce: This rich, full-bodied hot sauce is the perfect balance of smoke and heat. Made from vine-ripened red jalapeño peppers that are slow-smoked to perfection over a smoldering pecan wood fire.

Habanero Pepper Sauce: If you’re looking for a hot sauce on the spicy side, our Habanero sauce has a heat level that’s not for amateurs. Made from a blend of peppers, papaya, mango and spices, this Jamaican-style sauce adds Caribbean flair to any dish.

Scorpion Sauce: Our hottest hot sauce yet, made with one of the world’s most intense peppers—the Scorpion. This fiery sauce packs a potent punch with a Scoville rating that’s up to 10x hotter than TABASCO® Original Red. Made in small batches out of Avery Island Louisiana, this hot sauce features a mix of blazing-hot scorpion peppers, guava, and pineapple blended with a splash of TABASCO® Original Red sauce.

Sweet & Spicy Sauce: Mild, rich, sweet…with more than a hint of heat: TABASCO® Sweet & Spicy Sauce is ideal for slathering, drizzling and dabbing onto grilled meats, fish, fried foods, and noodles.

Buffalo Style Sauce: This gives you the classic buffalo style flavor you love, but with the signature excitement of TABASCO® that’s perfect for your wings, dips and cauliflower bites. Tangy, garlicky and savory with a splash of heat, this sauce is made from a blend of red peppers and oak-aged pepper mash.

Sriracha Sauce: Our premium sriracha sauce is rich, bold, and perfect for any meal. In one bite, you’ll have sweet and savory notes of red jalapeño peppers with a smooth garlic finish.

Salsa Picante: This is a rich and thick Mexican-style hot sauce with a vibrant spice blend and a subtle kick of heat.