Welcome to Sonoran Arcana, a column seeking to probe the margins of Arizona cuisine and define a more specific, novel cuisine that has emerged in America’s great Sonoran Desert: New Arizonan. Here, we ...

El Chiltepin is as much a restaurant as it is a mad scientist’s laboratory: an offbeat little place where Mexican and American ingredients and flavors are pieced together to create a parade of ...

We might have guessed that one mascot chile just wouldn't be enough for the state of Texas. While the ubiquitous jalapeño is the official state pepper, we must also acknowledge that the tiny, fiery ...

Have you seen these peppers in bushes outside? The tiny tepin or chiltepin is the only wild chili native to the U.S. and is believed to be the oldest and hottest species of wild pepper. I first saw it ...