W.Va.-based salsa business is heating up
22.05.12
Miss Mona's Sauces and Spices, LLC, sizzled in a national contest.
Ramona Price of Sandyville entered four items in the 2012 Scovie Awards, the food industry's top competition for hot and spicy foods. Each entry placed in its respective category.
Not bad for her try, especially since she's been making sauces and salsa professionally for less than four years.
The prestigious Scovie contest this year included 792 products and 161 companies from 38 states and four countries.
Price's wins include: Extra Hot Salsa, first place; Caribbean BBQ sauce and Liquid Lucifer Hot Sauce, both second place; and Tropical Salsa, third place.
She entered the contest in September and found out in late October that all four of her products had placed, a rare accomplishment in the prestigious event. She notes the 2012 winners are announced in 2011 and compared it to new cars coming out in advance of a new year.
She grows all of her own peppers in a home garden, including jalapeno, cayenne, habanero, garden salsa and ghost. Price, who handles the ghost peppers only with gloves, said her hottest sauces have "made grown men cry."
Source: Daily Mail - Charleston