Peppers is a gourmet pepper company named in honor of the founder’s mother, Patty, and features the uncommon but amazing Hungarian Wax pepper.
In 1963 just outside of Youngstown,Ohio, Patty canned her first jar of peppers. She acquired the recipe from her new neighbor, recent immigrants from the Abruzza region of Italy, who had moved to ‘The Rust Belt’ in search of work in steel mill jobs for the American dream. Luckily for us they brought over their amazing recipes. My mom and Jane became inseparable, lifelong friends. An autumn tradition began as they would drive the 45 minutes to Amish country to purchase many bushels of “Hunky Hots”. They would can several hundreds of jars each fall. Each year more popular than the last.
My Uncle Joe moved across the street in 1971 and began to grow and can his own Hungarian Wax peppers, no doubt influenced by Jane. Thus, the neighborhood sibling pepper rivalry was born. In town my moms became known as “Patty’s peppers in oil” and “Joe’s peppers in sauce”.
As I moved off to college mom and Joe would often send me pepper packages but they were quickly devoured and there never seemed to be enough to go around. As I moved to Las Vegas, New Jersey, and Florida I could never find anything remotely close to my family’s peppers. So in 2011, with Mom’s blessing, Patty’s Peppers was born. After three years of hard work, dedication, testing, failing, trial and error, researching, and learning, I found the perfect farmers and co-packer to replicate mom and Joe’s amazing product. They hit the shelves in October 2014.
Buy at Wholefoods & https://pattyspeppers.com!!