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Best-selling Author Dave DeWitt
'Dave DeWitt is one of the foremost authorities in the world on chile peppers and spicy foods. Dave researched and wrote numerous magazine and newspaper articles on chile peppers in the late1970s. In 1984, St. Martin's Press published his first cookbook, The Fiery Cuisines, co-authored with Nancy Gerlach. That book is still in print more than zsteen years later by Ten Speed Press. In 1987, Dave and Nancy approached a local publisher, and the three launched Chile Pepper magazine with a mere 212 subscribers. By 1995, with Dave as the editor-in-chief, the magazine had surpassed 50,000 subscribers with a total circulation exceeding 80,000. The magazine was sold in1996 and Dave launched Fiery Foods & Barbecue Business Magazine, a trade publication.
The earlier Chile
Pepper magazine project led to
numerous books, including The
Whole Chile Pepper Book (Little, Brown, 1990),
which now has nearly 100,000 copies in print and
recently had its tenth printing. Dave has 31 published
books to his credit and continues to write books at the
rate of one or two a year. He is also producer of the
National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show, the trade
show for the multi-billion dollar Fiery Foods and
Barbecue industries, now in its 13th year. His book
The
Chile Pepper Encyclopedia (William Morrow, 1999) won
the award “Best Spice Book in English” at the 1999
World Cookbook Awards at Versailles. His latest book,
again with Nancy Gerlach, is Barbecue
Inferno: Cooking with Chile Peppers on the
Grill (Ten Speed Press, 2001).
Other notable books by Dave and his co-authors
include: The
Pepper Garden, Peppers of the World, Hot & Spicy
& Meatless, The Healing Powers of
Peppers, and The
Hot Sauce Bible. In 1995, his book,
A
World of Curries, was nominated for a James
Beard Award. Dave is coproducer, writer, and host
of Heat
Up Your Life!, a three-part video
documentary series on chile peppers and spicy foods
that will run on PBS or a cable channel. He is also
publisher of the Fiery Foods & Barbecue Super Site,
at www.fiery-foods.com.
National TV appearances for Dave include "American
Journal," Cable News Network, “The Today Show,” “Home
with Gary Collins,” “Scientific American Frontiers,”
“Smart Solutions,” and "CBS Sunday Morning." He has
also been featured in The
New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA
Today, American Way,
Smithsonian,
and approximately 200 newspapers across the
country.
