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SUMMARY:Tiger Fire Hot Sauce Sampling
DESCRIPTION:Meet the creator of another LOCAL favorite\, Sarasota’s own TIGER FIRE HOT SAUCE and sample his amazing twist on an incredible Habanero blend of heat & fire!\n\n(Article courtesy of YourObserver.com)\nLucky for us\, Max Famiglietti now bases his product line right here on Florida’s Space Coast!\nHe came up with the idea for Tiger Fire Hot Sauce as the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold while quarantining in Peru.\nDuring a March 2020 backpacking trip throughout South America\, the 30-year-old Sarasota native found himself stuck inside Moksha Yoga and Surf Hostel in Huanchaco\, a small Peruvian surf town.\n“I saw the COVID happening and this country is starting to shut down\, so I was going to go to Peru where I’d been before\, like a little small town\, and just like hunker down and ride this pandemic out\, and hopefully surf the whole time\,” Famiglietti said. “[It] turns out we couldn’t surf for the first 2.5 months\, and obviously it was way more hardcore of a lockdown than any of us expected.”\nFamiglietti said he was among 26 people not allowed to leave the hostel. Eventually\, Famiglietti said the group set up a mini-market inside and began to cook for themselves.\nMarch 31\, 2020\, marked the first time Famiglietti made his homemade hot sauce. A friend had scrounged up limes that were already squeezed and ahi escabeche peppers.\n“I got these peppers and I was like\, ‘Oh man\, I’m going to make some hot sauce\,’” Famiglietti said. “I’ve always loved hot sauce.”\nFamiglietti said he used a small scale to measure his ingredients\, and that it took him four times to perfect his sauce recipe. He said while Central America is a “hot spot” for hot sauce\, South America tends to offer sauce with tamer heat levels.\nThe group tried the hot sauce on eggs\, plantain chips\, potatoes\, French fries\, chicken and chaufa rice.\n“Hot sauce quickly became a currency\,” Famiglietti said. “I traded spoons of it for all kinds of stuff. Beers\, meals\, snacks\, etc. Everything I put it on\, I got to eat too.”\nWhen the restaurant near Famiglietti’s hostel opened\, he began selling his hot sauce in small plastic containers.\nAround the same time\, Famiglietti started seeing memes on his social media feeds about the popular Netflix documentary “Tiger King.”\n“For one night\, it was like the night before I made the sauce\, just randomly that happened at the same time\, but I got people to pile in a room and watch the first episode. And like\, people walked out\,” Famiglietti said. “They were like so not about it and I was just like\, pinned to the screen\, jaw on the floor\, laughing.”\nTiger Fire Hot Sauce was born\, combining the Peruvian influence and wildly popular TV documentary. He also began documenting his hot sauce on Instagram.\n“People were hitting me up like\, ‘Oh\, that looks so good\,’” Famiglietti said. “This is like kind of proof of concept. I’m going to bring this back to the [United] States.”\nIn December 2020 when Famiglietti returned to Florida\, he struggled to find a job with his mechanical engineering degree from the University of Florida and thought about his new recipe.\nFamiglietti said if he wanted to turn the company into a legitimate business\, he had to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It required production in a commercial kitchen.\nFamiglietti found a co-packer based in Wauchula. The co-packer also agreed to sign a non-disclosure agreement on Famiglietti’s recipes. The ingredients come from farmers in the Orlando area.\n“They source all of the ingredients\, and then they cook it for you and bottle it and label it and return you a licensed product that you can sell to stores and stuff now\,” Famiglietti said.\nTo pay homage to Tiger Fire’s origins\, Famiglietti said he would love if Joe Exotic got to sample his hot sauce.\n“The ‘Tiger King’ needs to try Tiger Fire\,” Famiglietti said.
URL:https://downtownmelbourne.com/event/tiger-fire-hot-sauce-sampling/
LOCATION:Rain Tree\, 826 E New Haven Avenue\, Melbourne\, FL\, 32901\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Wine & Sign" with Tim Edwards
DESCRIPTION:Sip some wine & meet with renowned LOCAL artist\, Tim Edwards!\nKnown for his brilliant eclectic renditions throughout the alternative and local art communities\, this is an amazing opportunity to snag one of his amazing pieces and have it personally signed just for you to display!\n“If asked to try to classify my art I think it would be realism with a touch of the surreal.\nMy objective is to create thought-provoking paintings\, pushing to inspire the viewer to look beyond the art piece and try to envision what is transpiring\, feel an emotion\, and make up their own story for what they see.\nA successful piece of artwork in my opinion doesn’t leave the person as they continue on…it stays with them in some little way.”
URL:https://downtownmelbourne.com/event/wine-sign-with-tim-edwards/
LOCATION:Rain Tree\, 826 E New Haven Avenue\, Melbourne\, FL\, 32901\, United States
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