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Sunday, January 16, 2011 - The Morning Star B13
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Vacation provides a real zip Continued from previous page “What’s the least amount I can do to get back here?” He tells me I can quit at five, though, he says, I should realize that the fifth one across the ravine is the highest and longest. I inform him that five ziplines will be fine. Other willing victims arrive from a cruise ship bus. I see a variety of ages eagerly stepping into their safety harnesses. I repeat my Twaininspired resolution. And then I’m off. Suddenly I’m back to being 10-years old, swinging on the Tarzan rope in my backyard. And then I’m remembering the teenage rush of the roller coaster. Something shifts… I am the Queen of the Zipline. I want it all now. By the time I’ve finished the ninth crossing, my heart is pumping hard, my shirt is pretty damp and my grin permanent. My smile is about to get bigger. I’m enroute to meet Rosie McMaster of Susie’s Hot Sauce, and Rosie, it turns out, makes a roller coaster ride look tame. She opens her bungalow door, smiling. Rosie, like her house, is a veritable explosion of colour. The dining room has yellow pepper-coloured walls, chili red jars, glittery paper poinsettias, silver garland in a basket, her open suitcase from her last chili contest trip and all her hot sauces lined up on the dining room table. Rosie talks like other people breathe… I learn that Susie was her dearly departed mother who started Susie’s Hot Sauce. Rosie took over, expanding the now-fifty year old company from her mother’s original recipe, to include a full range of new flavours. She has won awards at the Texas Fiery Food Show and travels to contests from Toronto to Germany. In between trips, she’s cooking up drums of peppers. I love hot sauce but I’ve found some are so
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Rosie McMaster (above) has won awards for Susie’s Hot Sauce, while a popular place for lunch (below) is Buba’s Hideout in Antigua I know why these sauces taste so good. Like Rosie and these islands, they’re filled with heat, tons of colourful exuberance and buckets of love. I bet Rosie would jump on that zipline in a second. Colleen Friesen is with Travel Writers’ Tales, an independent newspaper syndicate.
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