Category Archives: Awards
2017 NYC Hot Sauce Expo Screaming Mimi’s Announced
The Screaming Mi Mi Awards were announced this year at the 5th Annual NYC Hot Sauce Expo, held April 22 & 23 at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Brooklyn, NY. The Mimi’s have beocome a coveted award, due in part to the limited categories and the world class caliber judges.
Congrats from It’s a Fiery World to all the winners!!!
Grand Champion Winner
CONGRATS To :
Dirty Dicks Hot Sauce
50 Case purchase from Peppers.com distribution
Hot Sauce featured in June subscription of Fuego Box
Full Page Ad in Chile Pepper Magazine
1 Year of Free banner advertising on the official Scott Roberts website: http://www.scottrobertsweb.com
Free 10 x 10 Booth at the 2018 NYC Hot Sauce Expo (or another High River presenting Expo)
A Big Time Congrats To All of the 2017 Winners!!
The panel of Judges that include celebrity chefs from CBS, FOX & Food Networks, writers from Bon Appetit Magazine, Rachael Ray Magazine, Food Network Magazine, Huffington Post, NYC Newspapers, NYC Food Bloggers, Sirius XM Radio, NYC Chefs and other industry professionals.
Screaming Mi Mi Winners
Asian Style
1st Place
BONMi NYC Kitchen
X BONfire
2nd Place
WUJU Hot Sauce
Extra Hot
3rd Place
Nam Prik
Nam Prik Chile Hot Sauce
Caribbean Style
1st Place
Burns & McCoy
Exitium
2nd Place
Demerara
Demerara Premium Hot Sauce
3rd Place
Lazy Soul
Lazy Soul Hot Sauce
Chipotle
1st Place
The Lucky Taco Imperio
Lucky Taco Chipotle Hot Sauce
2nd Place
Hoff & Pepper
Hoff’s Smoken Ghost
3rd Place
Jersey Barnfire
Smoked Ghost Taco
Fruit Based
1st Place
Eaglewingz
Pineapple Teriyaki
2nd Place
WUJU Hot Sauce
Original
3rd Place
Hell’s Kitchen Hot Sauce
Pepper Pastry
Fruit Based Hot
1st Place
Dirty Dicks
Dirty Dicks Hot Pepper Sauce
2nd Place
Caldo Sauce
Molton Melon Hot Sauce
3rd Place
Demerara Hot Sauce
Premium Hot Sauce
Habanero
1st Place
Yeak Inc.
Chruk
2nd Place
Towson Spices
Segen Sauce
3rd Place
World Famous Hot Sauce
LBI Love Potion Extra Garlic
Jalapeno
1st Place
Hellfire Hot Sauce
Gourmet Green
2nd Place
SoCal Hot Sauce
The Original Avocado SoCal Guac Sauce
3rd Place
Caldo Hot Sauce
Louisiana Style
1st Place
Hoff & Pepper
Hoff Sauce
2nd Place
Volcanic Peppers
Chocolate Lighting
3rd Place
Handsome Devils Co.
De Arbol
Pepper Blend Hot
1st Place
Lucky Dog Hot Sauce
Black Label
2nd Place
Kitchen Garden Farm
Ghost Pepper Sriracha
3rd Place
Purple Pam Hot Sauce
Kiss of Death
Pepper Blend Mild
1st Place
Jersey Barnfire
Garden State Green
2nd Place
Hellfire Hot Sauce
Gourmet Green
3rd Place
Jersey Barnfire
Black Garlic
Reaper Pepper
1st Place
Elijah’s Xtreme Gourmet Sauces
Reaper Sauce
2nd Place
Scotty O’ Hotty
Reaper de Muerte
3rd Place
Puckerbutt Pepper Company
Purgatory
XXX
1st Place
Grim Reaper Foods
The Raven Hot Sauce
2nd Place
Primo’s Peppers
Swampadelic Sauce
3rd Place
Cobra Chilli
Fever Chilli Paste
Chicken Wing
1st Place
Defcon Sauces
Defcon Condition #3
2nd Place
Culley’s Hot Sauce
Culley’s Buffalo Wing Sauce
3rd Place
Bonfatto’s Artisan Sauces
Fire In The Hole
Spicy BBQ
1st Place
Culley’s
Rib N Chik’N
2nd Place
Texas Rib Rangers
Hot BBQ Sauce
3rd Place
Texas Rib Rangers
TRR Spicy BBQ Sauce
Salsa
1st Place
Kitchen Garden Farm
Tomatillo Salsa
2nd Place
Salsa Del Diablo
Satan’s Tears
3rd Place
Cajun Tex Salsa
5 Pepper Extreme Hickory Smoked Salsa
Best Label Artwork
1st Place
Hoff & Pepper
Hoff’s Smoken Ghost Sauce
2nd Place
Clamlube Brand Hot Sauce
Sea Ghost
3rd Place
Lucky Dog
Year of The Dog
National Grand Champion
Dirty Dicks
Dirty Dicks Hot Pepper Sauce
High River Sauces Announces 2016 Screaming Mimi Winners!
Hot off the press!!! After a weekend of sauce, spice, and killer sales for vendors, here is the list of winners of the ever coveted Screaming Mimi awards for 2016. It’s a Fiery World congratulates all the winners! And apologies for the formatting- I wanted to get these pushed out as soon as I received them!! Because, Ladies and gentlemen, It is a Fiery World!!!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 25th, 2016
NYC Hot Sauce Expo – Screaming Mi Mi Award Winners
The NYC Hot Sauce Expo is proud to announce the 2016 Screaming Mi Mi Award winners. With hundreds of entries the winners were selected by blind taste test by New Yorks finest and brightest in the culinary industry. The panel consisted of chefs from FOX, CBS and Food Networks, Food Critics from NYC Newspapers, Bloggers, Magazines, Hot Sauce Retailers, and some of NYC’s Top Chefs. The Screaming Mi Mi Awards have been creating a large industry buzz within the Hot Sauce Community. Past winners have received features on TV, magazines, newspapers creating a profile that has lead for their product distributed by wholesalers and national retail outlets.
This year’s top honors goes out to Ghost Scream Hot Sauce for winning the Grand World Champion. The panel of judges gave his Shost Scream Hot Sauce the top honors of all entries.
Here are your 2016 Screaming Mi Mi Award Winners.
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Asian Style
Yai’s Thai
Chili Garlic Hot Sauce
2nd Place – Jersey Barnfire – Ginger
3rd Place – BONMi – BONMi Bonfire Sauce
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Caribbean Style
Krista’s Caribbean Kitchen
Jerkalicious
2nd Place – Dashelito’s – Undertow Caribbean Curry Hot Pepper Sauce
3rd Place – Dirty Dicks – Pepper Sauce
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Louisiana Style
Hoff & Pepper
Hoff Sauce
2nd Place – Ed’s Red – XX Hot Sauce
3rd Place – Gater Hammock – Gator Sauce
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Chipotle
Caption Foods
Old Man Gourmet Creole
2nd Place – Jersey Barnfire – Smoked Ghost Taco
3rd Place – All Spice Café – Chipotle Garlic
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Fruit Based
Dirty Dicks
Hot Pepper Sauce
2nd Place – VooDoo Chile – Psycho Tropic
3rd Place – Clamlube Brand – Authentic Black
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Fruit Based Hot
Dirty Dicks
Hot Pepper Sauce
2nd Place – Angry Goat – Purple Hippo Hot Sauce
3rd Place – Red Flag Spicy Foods – Not Dead Yet
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Habanero
Crowley’s Hot Sauce
Haba Nice Day
2nd Place – Volcanic Peppers – Volcanic Dust
3rd Place – Heartbreaking Dawns – 1542
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Jalapeno
Hell’s Kitchen
Retro Jalapeno
2nd Place – Hot & Pepper – Hoff Sauce
3rd Place – Queen Majesty – Jalapeno
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Pepper Blend Mild
Jersey Barnfire
Black Garlic
2nd Place – Lucky Dog – Brown Label
3rd Place – Friendly Fire – Tamarind & Ghost Pepper
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Pepper Blend Hot
Ghost Scream
Ghost Scream Hot Sauce
2nd Place – Rescue Me Hot Sauce
3rd Place – Purple Pam – Kiss of Death
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
XXX Hot Sauce
Cully’s Hot Sauce
Firewater
2nd Place – Heartbreaking Dawns – Fervor
3rd Place – Primo’s – Swampadelic
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Chicken Wing
Defcon Sauces
Defense Condition #3
2nd Place – Defcon Sauces – Curbstomp
3rd Place – Defcon Sauces – Cluckwing Orange
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Spicy BBQ
Texas Rib Ranger
Hot BBQ Sauce
2nd Place – Tom’s Roid-Rippin’- Double RR Citrus BBQ
2nd Place – Rufus Teague – Blazing Hot BBQ
3rd Place – Southern Belle – Spicy Hickory Smoke
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Spicy Salsa
Texas Brew Salsa
Hot Iron Habanero
2nd Place – Todd’s Original – Ghost Pepper Salsa
3rd Place – Deception Salsa – Oink
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Best Hot Sauce Label
Puckerbutt Pepper Company
The Reaper
2nd Place – All Spice Café – Cayenne Habanero
3rd Place – Mikey V’s – 512 Pot Sauce
2016 NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Screaming Mi Mi Award
Grand World Champion
Ghost Scream
Ghost Scream Hot Sauce
For more information about the NYC Hot Sauce Expo please contact Steve Seabury: steve@highriversauces.com
Official website: http://www.NYCHotSauceExpo.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NewYorkCityHotSauceExpo
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/highriversauces
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High River Sauces announces 2016 Hot Sauce Hall of Fame Inductees
Immediate ReleaseMarch 29th, 2016
Hot Sauce Hall of Fame Class of 2016
The Hot Sauce Hall of Fame Foundation is very proud to announce the Hot Sauce Hall of Fame Class of 2016. The Hot Sauce Hall of Fame will induct 5 people all of which have been very instrumental in the fiery foods. After months of balloting, with just shy of 500 voters, the NYC Hot Sauce Expo is now proud to announce and present the Class of 2016.
This year’s group are the biggest and brightest names in the industry. One of Legend. One of inspiration. Here is your Hot Sauce Hall of Fame Class of 2016.
1. Blair Lazar – Blair’s: Heating up over 31 countries, printed in six languages, and Guinness World
Record certified with the hottest product created, Blair’s passion for peppers is ever present. It is what fuels the fiery phenomena that’s called the Death Sauce.
2. David Tran – Huy Fong Foods (Sriracha Sauce): Started in 1980 and has grown to be the leader in Asian Hot Sauce with his Sriracha Sauce also known to hot sauce fans as the “Rooster Sauce”.
3. Jacob Frank – Founder of Franks Red Hot and one of the biggest selling hot sauces in the country. Frank’s RedHot cayenne pepper sauce was used as the secret ingredient for the first ever Buffalo Wings in Buffalo, New York, putting it on the map and starting the flavor craze that has led to consumers obsession with all things Buffalo-flavor.
4. Marie Sharp – Marie Sharp’s & the Original Melinda’s: Owner Marie Sharp’s Fine Foods Ltd. – Started making sauce in the early 80’s and actually was the creator of Melinda’s sauces. Her sauce is the quintessential Central American hot sauce awesome flavor and great heat!
5. Sam Garner – Texas Pete: This hot sauce was introduced to the world in 1929 and is now the 3rd largest selling hot sauce in the country.
The Hot Sauce Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony will be held on Saturday April 23rd on the main stage of the NYC Hot Sauce Expo. Inductees will receive a distinctive Red Jacket and a Hall of Fame Ring.
This year the 4th Annual NYC Hot Sauce Expo will take place on April 23rd and 24th at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Brooklyn, NY.
For More Information Please Contact Steve Seabury: steve@highriversauces.com
Info on the NYC Hot Sauce Expo: http://www.NYCHotSauceExpo.com
2016 Houston Hot Sauce Fest Announces Partial Vendor List!!!
I have to admit my heart went pitter pat when I got a message from Carol Borge today with the initial list of fiery vendors for the 2016 Houston Hot Sauce Festival! And I’m sure there will certainly be additions to the list as the Festival, always tbe 3rd weekend of September, approaches! With great vendors, good food, music and entertainment, this gulf coast fest is one of the go to events of the year!! And with a new indoor venue, I can’t wait for it to get here!!! Why, you ask? Because, Ladies and Gentlemen – It’s a Fiery World!!!!
Austin Gourmet Foods
Backyard Grill
Big Daddy’s Hot Sauce
Bravado Spice Co.
Briggs TRUE
CaJohn’s Fiery Foods
Call Me Gourmet
Cin Chili & Company
Frog Bone Cajun Sauces
High Octane Sauce Company
Hot Line Pepper Products
Katie’s Premium Jerky & Snacks
Kearly Seeds and Pepper Co.
Ken’s Pepper Works
Lisa’s Sweet and Spicy Pickles
Mikey V’s
Mild to Wild Pepper Co.
Patsy G’s Mustard
Puckerbutt Pepper Company
Rib Rangers Products of Texas
Salsa Maya LLC
Salsa Works
Sauce Goddess
Silverleaf International
Smither Family Kitchen
Suhey Peppers
Texas Select Seasonings
Tricky Dix Mojo, LLC
Volcanic Peppers
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