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This right here is part of the reason Swamp Dragon exists. When you go to this level of work to make gumbo that's as much art as food... well... you just do not put vinegar in it! NO!   The problem with writing this recipe is that I don’t work from a recipe. The best I can do is to...

Matt's cell phone rang at about 11 in the morning a few weeks after Swamp Dragon was featured at Thrillist. An associate producer for "Most Expensivest," hosted by rap mogul 2 Chainz, was calling to offer Swamp Dragon an opportunity to be on the show, aired by Viceland. She discovered Swamp Dragon on Thrillist, and her team decided that it...

What kind of hot sauce is Swamp Dragon? Matt Beeson, inventor, tells all in The Principle of Swamp Dragon.

    The idea was simple enough, I thought. Vinegar tastes like gack. But vodka is unflavored and would allow the purest pepper flavors to come through without the gack. There would be no need to add molasses, sugar, lime, genetically modified corn syrup, synthetic Kowakian monkey-lizard glandular extract, or whatever else might possibly mask the pungency of vinegar. But if...