Heat Up Your Life! is the three-part video documentary that explores all elements of chiles and fiery-foods. The Heat Up Your Life! series was shot in Mexico, Guatemala, The Bahamas, Jamaica, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Witness the madness of crazed chileheads at the National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show. Follow chile scientist Paul Bosland as he tracks down a wild chile species. Take a trip to the Big Easy–New Orleans, Hot Sauce Capital of the World. Watch Dr. Frank Etscorn as the cheerfully tortures his students to discover how eating chile peppers triggers the body’s natural painkillers. Watch a curandera, or natural healer, who uses chile peppers in mysterious ways.

Take Dave’s quick and easy chile gardening lesson. In Florida, rumours of a chile pepper shrine lead Dave on a relentless quest for tasty hot products among the swamp folks of the Everglades, and the pepper-lovin’ Parrotheads of the Florida Keys. Visit farms, processing plants, import warehouses, factories, and hot shops–even the home of Tabasco sauce on Avery Island, Louisiana.

In Mexico, get a south-of-the-border education in hot and spicy from elegant chile cuisine to a funky mole sauce in Oaxaca to grilled grouper on a Cancun beach. In Jamaica, learn firsthand the secrets of jerk barbecue and discover chef Norma Shirley’s island food that’s both hot and haute. Dave also takes you on a tour of spicy food in the U.S., including Little Havana, hot and spicy alligator along the bayous of Louisiana, elegant chile desserts in Austin, and classic New Mexican cuisine in Santa Fe.