Acknowledgements
My heartfelt thanks to Alyssa Anderson, Justin Rawlins, Amy Hawkins, Tisha Dejmanee, and the editors for their helpful feedback on this essay.
Notes
1. Hot Ones was developed by Chris Schonberger, produced by Complex Network and First We Feast, and is hosted by Sean Evans.
2. The U.S. hot sauce market grew 150% between 2000 and 2014, and steadily every year since, indicative of the culinary influence of Latin American and south and east Asian immigration (Roberto A. Ferdman and Ritchie King Citation2014; Chase Purdy Citation2017).