Attention Hot Sauce Makers and Salsa Lovers!

Call for Hot Sauce Festival Competition Entries

"...If you show up to a party with homemade salsa do you get bombarded with recipe requests? Does your..."

Aug. 21, 2019 Food Post by Jessi Cape

A Brief History of Chips and Salsa

The backstory on this power couple

"...For Texans, chips and salsa don't need an introduction. We've all been guilty of..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Food Feature by Sierra Diaz

Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Everything

What do Grupo Fantasma, Brownout, and Ocote Soul Sounds have in common? Prince, Maceo Parker, and Larry Harlow!

"...turns the party out with a grinning mix of salsa, funk, and psychedelic cumbia...."

June 13, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Salsa Town

Meet Austin's civic leaders in mouth burn

"...Austin is a serious salsa town, and we take pride in the fact that..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Food Feature

Luv Doc Recommends: Spring Salsa Dance Festival 2008

Texas Union Ballroom, Friday, February 22, 2008

"...you’ll get by – James McMurtry, “Painting by Numbers” Salsa dancers look at their feet a lot. For the..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

Practice Safe Salsa!

"...It's no secret that the core ingredients for fresh salsa have been in the national news since April as..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Ruth's Easy Salsa Recipe

"...in Tucumcari, N.M., in 1930 and has been making salsa for almost 60 years. She and our dad, Alfred,..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Food Feature

Tom Blanton's Salsa Verde Especial

Oct. 22, 1999 Food Feature

ChileChaser

Crowd pleasin' & commercial bottlin' with a hot-sauce guru

"...based out of Houston, but his avocation is making salsa...."

Aug. 31, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Who's a Pepper?

The piquant history of an American hot sauce

"...You can call it salsa, picante sauce, or even hot sauce, but you have..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Cuban Fury

Nick Frost is a schlubby guy who's gotta dance.

"...into life by rediscovering his passion for the Cuban salsa. For Bruce, it’s a dream deferred. As a teenager,..."

April 18, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Fanning the Flames

Cultivo Salsa heats up

"...flautas. It's a beautiful thing. For Andria Millie, treating salsa right is the primary thing. "I really think it..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Food Feature by Anna Toon

Steak With Green Chile Flautas

Marinated steak with Fire-Roasted Salsa Verde and green chile corn flautas with Smoked Tomato and Wild Chili Salsa

"...Cultivo Smoked Tomato and Wild Chili Salsa Steak Marinade:..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Food Feature by Andria Millie

El Cantante

Jennifer Lopez and her real-life husband, Marc Anthony, portray the lives of salsa star Hector Lavoe and his wife, Puchi, in this biopic overstuffed with music-industry clichés.

"...person," says Lopez as Puchi Lavoe, widow of Eighties salsa sensation Hector Lavoe. The person she's talking about is..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Smoky Cocktail From Camila Alves McConaughey and More Recipes From the Hot Sauce Festival

Including Joel Fried’s salsa homage to Tamale House #3

"...If you’re a fan of salsa – especially salsa inspired by a now-shuttered Austin institution..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Food Post

Cuantos Tacos Celebrates One Year of Mexico City-Style Street Tacos

Suadero y secret salsa

"...Where there are tacos, there's salsa. Beto's mainstay is the suadero taco and it took..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Shine

Salsa-dancing siblings fight over gentrification

"...separation on the streets of Spanish Harlem to use salsa dancing to overcome the tide of gentrification...."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review

Love Is Strange

Heartfelt, seriocomic romance about two longtime partners who wed after 40 years, then discover all is not bliss.

"...familial guilt, and a moment or two of interruptive salsa music ensue...."

Sept. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Music From the Inside Out

Documentary filmmaker Daniel Anker spent five years with the Philadelphia Orchestra as they toured, rehearsed, and waxed poetic about the purpose of music in their lives.

"...a classical trombonist sneak off to play at a salsa club, and an Israeli cellist collaborate with a Palestinian..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

The story is similar to the popular original – but its Borscht Belt setting has been relocated to pre-revolutionary Cuba in 1958.

"...of this dancing – it’s just some hip-bumping, booty-shaking salsa moves that won’t get anyone pregnant but nevertheless ain’t..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fire on the Range

Salsa Verde

"...green sauce is one of the most popular table salsas in Mexico and Texas. It also makes a great..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Food Feature

Mambo Kings

"...alive during its performance scenes. With musical support from salsa legends Tito Puente and Celia Cruz, sparks fly during..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Strip Club: Lake Creek Festival Shopping Center

Sampling noodles, shoes, salsa, and silencers at the Northwest Austin strip mall

"...Vazquez #3 says “Come Try Our World Famous Salsa.” Famous in which countries? “Mexico” – specifically Guanajuato, where..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Food Feature by Taylor Holland

OUTsider Review: Promised Land

Rudy Ramirez and his quest for queer belonging

"...saying, “If you like game shows, eating chips and salsa, or professional sports-style play-by-plays of gay sex, this is..."

Feb. 21, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Rachel Van Middlesworth

Residual Kid’s Major Label Premiere

Austin trio’s new video teases their Sire Records debut

"...the first taste of the homegrown grunge-punk trio’s upcoming Salsa EP, arriving just in time for South by Southwest...."

March 14, 2016 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Hot!

Winners of the 18th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Contest

"...nationwide salmonella scare involving the core ingredients to fresh salsa, and a last-minute health department ruling that prohibited serving..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival Winners

Past winners

"...R: Red Salsa; G: Green Salsa; SV: Special Variety; P: Pepper Sauce..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Food Feature

The 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival Winners

"...R: Red Salsa; G: Green Salsa; SV: Special Variety; P: Pepper Sauce..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Food Feature

Hot Takes

What to drink with the fieriest salsas at the AC Hot Sauce Festival

"...Hot Sauce: Kala's Kuisine Mirchi-Masala Salsa..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

The 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival Winners: 1991-2004

"...R: Red Salsa; G: Green Salsa; SV: Special Variety; P: Pepper SauceIndividuals1991..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Food Feature

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