This condiment is often called "pepper ... Hot sauce consumption was no longer provincial and became portable. As millions of African Americans migrated from the American South after the Civil ...

(Photo credit: iStock/Getty Images) While cayenne pepper's not nearly as hot ... and South America, but today it's cultivated around the world in tropical climates such as India, East Africa ...

There are countless variations of hot sauce—be it consistency, species of pepper used (some sauces specify a particular pepper, some use generic red chiles, often cayenne), treatment of the ...