Hot Geographical News About Jalapeños

by Kevin Burton    I am a proud, practicing pepperhead. Some like it hot, I like it hotter.    I go to a restaurant and look for that little flame icon next to the entrées, to know which ones might contain a little heat. That search though is sometimes unrewarded.    I’ve (mostly) stopped ordering …

Chocolate And More Words From The Aztecs

by Kevin Burton    If you have an appetite for words and/or dinner and dessert, you’re in the right place.    One of the recent Words at Play columns from Merriam-Webster featured words from the Aztecs, who lived in central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest.     The language they spoke (and about …