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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
MiMi is Screaming “The Award Goes To” at the NYC Hot Sauce Expo
Steve Seabury, owner of High River Sauces and Producer of the NYC Hot Sauce Expo, announced the Winners of the 2014 Screaming MiMi Awards during the first afternoon of the Expo! If you’ve been following my You Tube videos and Facebook posts this weekend, you already know that the show is a rocking success!!! Thousands of people getting their “burn” on kept 45 vendors from across the country crazy busy sampling, educating, and entertaining the crowd. Seabury has raised the bar for Hot Sauce and Fiery Foods Events, with Hard Driving Rock playing during the show, and the likes of Food Network’s Chris Santos, Trans Siberian Orchestra’s Chris Caffery, and Twisted Sister guitarist Eddie Ojeda doing demos and signing autographs!
But the real stars were the sauces, salsas, and spicy products of love being showcased all weekend. The Screaming MiMi’s were judged several weeks ago by a veritable Who’s Who of judges from Food Network, Bon Appetit Magazine, and other true experts in the culinary world! The complete List of winners is below!
I’m having blast at the show and I highly recommend all you to make the trip! Why would you make the trip to NYC for the Hot Sauce Expo! Because, Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s a Fiery World!
Screaming MiMi Awards 2014 Complete List of Winners
Louisiana Style
1st- CaJohns – Firehouse
2nd – Race City Sauce Works – Carolina Cayenne
3/rd – Culley’s Limited – Trinidad Scorpion Hot Sauce
Chipotle
1st-Hoboken Eddies – Home Grown Smoke
2nd – Pucketbutt Pepper Co. – Voodoo Prince Death Mamba
3rd – Dog Gone – Chipotle
Fruit Based
1st – Frankie V’s – The Serranos
2nd- Dirty Dicks- Dirty Dicks
3rd – Loud Foods -0 Sunshine Mango Sauce
Fruit Based Hot
1st-Hellfire Hot Sauce – Elixir
2nd- Volcanic Peppers- Lava Death by Douglah
3rd-Puckerbutt Pepper Co. – Pineapple Ginger
Jalapeno
1st-NW Elixirs – Verde
2nd-Queen Majesty-Jalapeno Tequila
3rd – Lucky Dog-Green
Habanero
1st-Dirty Dicks – Dirty Dicks
2nd-Frankie V’s-Habanero Classic Recipe
3rd-Freshies Food Corp.-Sweet Fire
All Natural
1st- Race City Sauce Works- Aleppo
2nd-Scotty O’Hotty – The Ghost Sauce
3rd- Heartbreaking Dawn’s- 1498 Apricot Scorpion
XXX Hot Sauce
1st- Race City Sauce Works- Cirque De
2nd- Grim Reaper Foods- The Raven
3rd- Tahiti Joe’s – Ulane’ Akai XXXX Hot Sauce
Pepper Blend
1st – Scotty O’Hotty – Premium Habanero Sauce
2nd- Born To Hula – Ghost of Ancho
3rd-Salvy Salsa – Boom Boom
Chicken Wing
1st- Defcon Sauces – Defense Condition #1
2nd Rizzotti Foods- Rippin Red Mild
3rd- Rozzoii Foods – Rippin Red Hot
BBQ Sauces
1st- High Octane- Peach Ghost Scorpion BBQ Sauce
2nd- Torchbearer Sauces-Chipotle BBQ
3rd Davis Sauces- 1929
Spicy Salsa
1st-Silverleaf International- Ghost Pepper Salsa
2nd Gunther’s Gourmet-Jalapeno Salsa
3rd.Apsara Foods, Pepper Salsa
Best Label Artwork
1st- Grinders Near Death
2nd- Cully’s Limited – No. 1 Hot Sauce
3rd – Puckerbutt Pepper Co. -Reaper Sauce
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