i bumped into dave dewitt, a food writer who has been dubbed "the pope of peppers." >> southwest is famous for growing chili peppers. new mexico grows more chili peppers than any other state, has for a long time, and we have festivals devoted to chili peppers, and so there is a complete culture just devoted to chili peppers, and there's books and clubs and organizations. and people are hot-sauce collectors, salsa collectors, and that sort of thing, and it's what we do here. you've come to the right place if you like spicy food. there's a certain salsa that's made here called the scorpion salsa that's not on the menu. >> it's not on the menu? >> it's not on the menu. it's rare--it's the hottest salsa in the world. they make it here, but they don't tell everybody, because as soon as they make a batch, it sells out within hours. >> but what's the point of making a salsa so spicy that you can't eat it? >> the scorpion salsa's very flavorful. it's just super hot, because the scorpion pepper's the hottest pepper in the world, and that's what makes it so hot, and they have to, of course, tone it