Featured at this year’s OneofaKind Show: Peppermaster Jewels of Fire and Ice Gift Selection

Come out and taste them all! Get a feel for what you like the most then visit our website and order a big jar of it for your pantry! Peppermaster Juniors will be available on location.

Come visit our booth and ask us for your free gift of our Carrot Pepper Steak Spice!

Check out OneofaKind Show details here:
http://www.oneofakindshow.com/spring10/

If you’d like to buy tickets, shoot us an email - we’d love to see you there!

We will be moving all information regarding Tina’s efforts with the Haitian disaster relief to the website http://operationAyiti.org so as to differentiate those efforts from ours.

We regret that Brooks Pepperfire Foods cannot cease all function to operate in this effort, but instead we have freed/frozen Tina’s work schedule so that she can concentrate on finding all our friends and family and those of our friends in the Haitian Diaspora.

Our hearts grieve for the families and friends still unaccounted for.

You can find Tina on Twitter as @Pepperfire or @operationAyiti

We thank you for your understanding.

Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc.

PRESS RELEASE
JANUARY 15, 2010

For Immediate Release
Contact:
Tina Brooks
(514) 393-3430
Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc.

Operation Ayiti
Haitian Relief Effort

Rigaud, Quebec - January 15, 2010- International Twitter friends Create Haitian Relief Database to Help Family and Friends Find Survivors

@Pepperfire, @AlexBlom and @SallyWhite, Tweeters from all over the globe team up to create interernationally accessible database of surivivors of the Haitian Earthquake.

Operation Ayiti

Operation Ayiti A new Hand reaching out. Following the recent Earthquake disaster in Haiti, A Group of twitter friends have created a website database solely to collect the names of survivors of the earthquake. The website launched at 3:00 Thursday January 15, and the group expects to have the French and Creole translations available before close of business Friday afternoon. Allowing Haitians everywhere the ability to upload the names of their loved ones.

With the permission of the Canadian Red Cross, Operation Ayiti is now up and running to gather data and allow others to update lists on survivors. http://operationayiti.org/ will serve as a collection engine for the survivors of the natural disaster and work is being done that will allow the list to be uploaded to International Foreign Affairs departments as well as the International Committee for the Red Cross familylinks database.

Orchestrator, Tina Brooks said “We are creating something here that can be used and mirrored for any future disaster or terrorist attack anywhere in the World.”

The group cites the importance of the database as its uniqueness in collecting the names of survivors, without regard to their nationality or whether or not the information is complete or retraceable. Their sole desire is to give the family and friends of victims of the disaster a place to go to find peace of mind. The database is necessary because the amount of information required to list a survivor in the ICRC is not what one has in hand when the survival report is received via cell phone text message, twitter report, or other word of mouth. Whereas the Foreign Affairs departments require less detailed information to list a missing person, a full name with or without birthdate will suffice, they only collect the information of those who carry their respective passports.

Over the next few days, the website will boast an increasing number of names of survivors and viral social media tools are being used to ask people to post the names of their relatives including Facebook and Twitter.

Operation Ayiti is not collecting donations but will include a resource to allow people to choose from the options available to them to make donations and find other means of participating in the relief efforts.

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For more information contact:

Tina Brooks, VP Marketing
Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc.
Rigaud, Quebec, Canada
tbrooks@peppermaster.com
http://www.peppermaster.com
Tel/Fax: 1 (514) 393-3430

Sally White or Michael White
The Old Bank House
Main Street, Kyle of Lochalsh
Ross-shire IV40 8AB
Scotland UK
sallywhite435@hotmail.com
http://www.go-bedandbreakfast.co.uk/THEOLDBANKHOUSE/
Tel 01599 534283

Alex Blom
Digital Media Specialist
alex@alexblom.com
http://www.alexblom.com
Tel: 1 (289) 887-6792

As many of you already know, we work very closely with many Haitians and are deeply touched by this tragedy. The earthquake in Haiti came as a great shock to us, and has left us scrambling to come up with ways to help.

Tina has been twittering her little heart out trying to find ways to help people both in Haiti and in Canada to connect with each other and to share information from the island.

The the worst damage seems to be in and around the City of Port-au-Prince. The suburbs seem to have been very badly hit as well. Information, although now coming in, is still very sketchy and there is mass confusion in the villages.

Many buildings have collapsed most notably schools and hospitals and the homes of many. Refugee camps are being set up around the company and as I type this, International aid is landing in Port-au-Prince.

If you’re wondering what you can do, consider what these people need.

Food, water, medical help, cash and shelter, for now.

They are also in desperate need of trained medical staff. If you or someone you know is a fireman, a cop, a nurse, or just cpr first-aid trained, they need bodies to help deal with the injured and to help dig people out of the rubble. If you can get there to help, go.

We’re compiling a SAFE LIST with our friends, that you will be able to add the names of people who you are certain are alive and well. We are using Twitter, a Satellite phone, emails and text messages to create a system of connection that we hope will allow people both in Haiti and here on the mainland to know that their loved ones are ok.

If you are in Haiti and are reading this, please tell us if you can hear Radio Tele Ginen FM 92.9 FM broadcasting. If you can log on to the internet, we know that the chat line there is working and many are logging in.

We will attempt to post notices and information in English French and Creole, but this will take some time. If you’d like to volunteer to help, please contact us, JC Stefanovitch at Cafe Noula or Ryan Sawatzky at the Sawatzky Family Foundation and Patrick Lucien of Bel Soley and Ecole Ile-a-Vache.

If you have any resources or services that you can add to our list, or just wish to volunteer, we can help direct you to people who can help you.

Our task, will be to compile and make available these lists. If you would like to help us, please contact Tina via Twitter @Pepperfire or via email tbrooks@peppermaster.com

Priye pou Ayiti
Kenbe

This list will be updated as more information becomes available.  Want to help add to it? Email tbrooks@peppermaster.com now. For more information, see this post.

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Tonight begins the celebration of the birth of a very powerful magician who gave two great gifts to the world, they are PEACE and LOVE.

As our Christian friends celebrate the birth of their saviour and the rest of us just jerk a turkey, we at Brooks Pepperfire Foods wish you peace and love.

Have a very happy festive season.

Be blessed.

PS: Our shop will be closed from now until January 4th.

We challenged Aileen of Challenge45.com to add ‘eating world’s hottest pepper’ to her list of 45 challenges to celebrate being 45 and I must say, she did so like a real trooper! Check out the video on her blog here!

Great job, Aileen, keep up the great work!

To find some pepper challenges of your own, be sure to check out the main site!

Scott Roberts (@ScottRoberts) gave four of our sauces thorough reviews on his website:  THE OFFICIAL SCOTT ROBERTS WEB SITE

Here are the scores:

Peppermaster Junior Chili Chocolate 4/5

Red Savina Mango Sauce 4.5/5

Nirvana Naga 2.5/5

Sweet Goatpepper Chili Sauce 4/5

Check out what Scott had to say — do you agree? Leave us a comment, we’d be delighted to hear from you!

“Hot Freak” Russell over at Good Hurts had some awesome stuff to say about our three of our sauces — Peppermaster Curry Fire, Peppermaster Mango Fire, and Peppermaster Pepper Fire.  I love what he had to say about the Curry Fire:

“Flavor: It’s a welcome (and needed) addition to the acidic and vinegar-y world of hot sauce. Rich, sweet-hot Indian spices, sugar, onion, ginger, thyme, guar gum (for thickness), and fresh hot peppers come together masterfully. Imagine the aromatic sweetness of creamy, fresh yellow curry, filled with savory, juicy veggies. Somehow, Brooks has crammed that flavor into a hot sauce using fresh, fair-trade ingredients. It’s so unique and so simple: the perfect one-two punch.”

Thanks for the love, “Hot Freak” Russell, glad you enjoyed the sauces!  Be sure to check out the rest of Russell’s reviews at Good Hurt.

Promotions Roger Inc., presents the 5th annual Le Salon Des Artisans which will be held from Thursday December 10th - Sunday December 20th at the Centre de Foires in Québec City — and you favourite hot sauce masters will be there!

Here’s the flyer (translated into English):

“…We are a specialist company in the field of event management. Founded in 1992, Promotions Roger has built a solid reputation in event management. Our team has helped in the success of several great events representing more than 2,500 exhibitors and 500,000 visitors per year.  We’ll be pulling all the stops to make this event No 1 in Quebec — at the advertising level, visitors, exhibitors and the quality of kiosks. Being a qualified and dynamic team and taking into account the demand for this kind of event, we are sure that this is an event that you do not want to miss!”

Come and look for booth #160,  December 10th - 20th - weekdays from 11am - 9pm or weekends from 10am - 5pm!

Want to read the event description in French? Check it out right here!

And while, I’m at it — are you connected with us on Facebook and Twitter yet?  Become a fan and help spread the culinary adventure!