The Scoville scale, created in 1912 by pharmacist Wilbur Scoville, measures pepper heat in Scoville Heat Units (SHU) based on capsaicin—the compound that delivers the burn. It ranges from 0 (bell peppers) to over 2 million for the hottest superhots.
Shrub drinks, those vinegar-infused fruit elixirs, trace their roots way back to ancient civilizations where preserving food was key to survival. Archaeological …












