L.A. Farmers Market Guide: Cherry Bomb peppers aren't as explosive as you'd think

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Cherry Bomb peppers are more like mild jalapeños than the name suggests, and are unusually pretty and good for pickling too.

Mid-September at Southern California farmers markets is time for some flamboyant scarlet and orange produce juggling. Apples and pumpkins are flooding the stands and late-season chile peppers are piled like ordnance, including the Cherry Bomb peppers atCraig Underwood, 76, a fourth-generation farmer tends land across Ventura County , with produce stands and U-pick fields in Moorpark and Somis. He’s been growing Cherry Bombs for 15 years.

Underwood has a long history with peppers, specifically a nearly 30-year partnership with Huy Fong Foods Inc., the Irwindale-based makers of Sriracha, for whom the farmer grew jalapeños — lots of jalapeños — until that partnership collapsed. After a breach-of-contract legal battle, . The farm began making its own pepper sauce earlier this year — though not, I should add, with Cherry Bombs. That’s your job.In addition to Cherry Bombs, other Underwood hot peppers include jalapeño, Santa Fe, Anaheim and poblano chiles.

 

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