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Dave Hirschkop's Insanely Hot Sauce

Dave Hirschkop put the active ingredient of mace into a hot sauce to create what few people would deny is the hottest hot sauce on the market. NPR's Scott Simon samples some Insanity Sauce and talks to Hirschkop, who has released a new cookbook, Crazy from the Heat: Dave's Insanity Cookbook.

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Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.

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