Crime & Safety
Need a Sizzling, Last-Minute Gift? Go for Palo Alto Firefighters Pepper Sauce!
What started as a local fire station concoction now has a nationwide fan base. At $6 a bottle, it makes a great gift and supports a worthy cause.
In your Bloody Marys. On your peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. Add it to plain yogurt and it transforms a veggie dip.
Palo Alto Firefighters Pepper Sauce goes with nearly everything it seems -- and everyone seems to love it.
The fiery sauce's Facebook fan page is chockful of raves and recipes.
At $6 a bottle, the hot sauce makes a great hostess gift or stocking stuffer, and proceeds help support a worthy cause -- the Palo Alto Firefighters Charitable Fund.
"What started out in 1994 in the backyard garden at Fire Station #5 in Palo Alto, has evolved way beyond the city limits," according to the hot sauce;s history file.
Read more and "like" Palo Alto Firefighters Pepper Sauce on Facebook here, or view the website here.
Where to buy Palo Alto Firefighters Pepper Sauce? Retail locations include:
* Whole Foods Market - All Northern California locations (including Reno,NV)
* Andronico's Community Market - All SF Bay Area locations
* Village Cheese House - 157 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, CA
* Driftwood Deli & Market -3450 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA
* University Arts - Annex - 267 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA
* Schaub's Meat, Fish & Poultry - 395 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA
* Philz Coffee - 101 Forest Ave, Palo Alto,CA
- 3191 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto,CA
* Palo Alto Pizza Company - 2450 Park Blvd, Palo Alto,CA
* Palo Alto City Hall Café – 250 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA
* Hook and Ladder Winery - 2132 Olivet Road, Santa Rosa, CA
* La Brocante - 156 East Napa St, Sonoma,CA
* Villa Corona - 1138 Main St, St. Helena,CA
* McCauley Olive Groves - 300 Balfour Road, Brentwood, CA
* Roddy Ranch Golf Club - 1 Tour Way, Antioch, CA
* Cocina Medina Restaurant - 5005 Lone Tree Way, #A, Antioch, CA
* Eddie Papa's - American Hangout - 4889 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton, CA
* Pans on Fire - 3059 Hopyard Rd- Suite J, Pleasanton, CA
* Clementine's - 18070 San Ramon Valley Blvd, San Ramon, CA (XX Habanero only)
* Los Gatos Meats & Smoke House - 575 University Ave, Los Gatos, CA
* Back Porch Market - 135 Colfax Ave, Grass Valley, CA
* Tess' Kitchen - 115 Mill St, Grass Valley, CA
* Drewes Brothers Meats - 1706 Church St, San Francisco, CA
* Pizzeria Avellino - 2769 Lombard St, San Francisco, CA
* Heat Hot Sauce Shop - 1922 B Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley, CA
* The Spice Tin - 457 N. Algiers, Murphys, CA
* Khin's Produce Stand - on Hwy 12 just east of Hwy 160, Rio Vista, CA
* el Salchichero - 402 Ingalls St, Santa Cruz,CA
* Dittmer's Gourmet Meats - 4540 El Camino Real, Los Altos, CA
* Weiler's Original Delicatessen - 9046 Balboa Blvd, Northridge, CA
* Hodge Podge Lodge - 2206 Main Street, Susanville, CA
* Spices and Stuff - 41 Clementon Rd, #214, Berlin, NJ
* It's F'N Hot - 545 Main Street, Park City, UT
* Chili & Max - Gateway Mall, 104 S Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, UT
* Peppers of Key West - 602 Greene Street, Key West, FL
* Some Like It Haute - 17 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd #222, Fort Lauderdale, FL
* Hot Stuff Mon - 34 1/2 Treasury St, Saint Augustine, FL
* The Sauce Shoppe - 3388 Princess Anne Rd #307, Virginia Beach, VA
* Hot Stuff - 6273 Cropper St, Chincoteague Island, VA
* Just Beyond the Door - 812 Texas St, Woodward, OK
* Newport Ave Market - 1121 NW Newport Ave, Bend, OR
* "The Burn Center" at Julio's Liquors - Route 9 East, 140 Turnpike Rd, Westborough, MA
* Double DD Meats - 5602 232nd Street SW, Mountlake Terrace, WA
