Guides

Practical guides for restaurants, food manufacturers and distributors who buy chiles and spices by volume: which chile does which job, how hot it runs, and when to order whole or ground. Written from what moves through our Los Angeles warehouse.

Dried ancho, guajillo, árbol and pasilla chiles beside a bowl of red chile sauce
buying guide

Which chiles to use for mole, tamales, salsa and adobo

A wholesale buyer's guide to the dried chiles behind four everyday jobs — mole, tamale...
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