Chefs and Restaurants
Pepper Master
May 27, 2014
Ed "Smokin Ed" Currie never bit into a pepper his mouth couldn't handle. The farmer, chef and owner of Puckerbutt Pepper Company based in Fort Hill, S.C., has developed close to 1,100 varieties of peppers on his 400-acre farm, the latest one of which is the Smokin Ed's Carolina Reaper, a cross between two rare peppers grown in St. Vincent in the Virgin Islands and...