IN THE NEWS... When You're Hot You're Hot! Over the years we have been delighted to receive attention from newspapers, magazines and other media - all waxing poetic over our flavorful delights. Here are a few samples (be sure to let us know if we missed one!)

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For the longest time Mr. Yeaton Outerbridge, chief cook and president of Outerbridge Peppers Ltd., was baffled by requests from American Marriott Hotels for his condiment.
"About nine months ago, I had inquiries from Marriott Corp. in Washington.  About six months ago, I started getting orders from all over the US for cases of the large bottles and cruets of sherry peppers," he said this week.
Then one evening early this week he happened to meet Ms. Marianne Soponis director of service standards of food and beverage for Marriott Hotel and Resorts, a division of Marriott Corp., at the Marriott's Castle Harbour Resort.
He asked:  "What's happening."
She told him.  Marriott was starting to convert some of its in-house restaurants to seafood eateries, called Sea Grill.
When the company was mulling over the concept, one of the executives who had been to the Island suggested putting Bermuda fish chowder on the menu.  Ms Soponis said:  "He was served it here and considered it part of the authentic cuisine."  As Bermuda Fish Chowder isn't Bermuda Fish Chowder without Outerbridge sherry peppers, the condiment was included, she said.
The chowder is served with rum and Outerbridge sherry peppers in the 12 hotel restaurants now converted to Sea Grills, she said.  She said that by the end of this year about 24 hotels will have Sea Grills.
The 61-year-old hotel chain has more than 150 hotels in the US.  although not all will have Sea Grill restaurants, the plan is to put them into as many as is profitable.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Outerbridge is pleased by his unexpected good luck.  "I'm very excited that they have accepted my product.  It will mean a lot of business to me and a lot of advertising for Bermuda,"  he said.
He could not say how much of a difference the Marriott's orders would make to his 26-year-old company.  So far he has received several repeat orders for cases of 12 of the large bottles from most of the hotels servings the sherry peppers.  "The peppers sell retail for $14 in Bermuda and probably $16 in the US," he said.