
So, tonight I just finished canning a batch of the Tibetan hot sauce the way I used to make it and it made me think of my first marketing attempt in Seattle, WA. I was just starting out. I had just moved from making the hot sauce my way in a little restaurant in Salem, Oregon called the Off Center Cafe into a cannery called Oregon Hill Farms. I had the cannery make these two ounce bottles of hot sauce. Cute little jam jars with labels I made by hand and then scanned into my home computer. Here is the picture I put on the caps:
Cool huh? Well anyway, I decided that I was going to send these jars out into the world. I sent jars to Los Angles, Boulder, San Francisco and New York. I was visiting Seattle with some of my close friends. I am a man who loves to trust auspicious coincidence, so I took 50 jars to pass out at Pikes Place Market on our Seattle adventure. This I did and my wife took pictures.

Me setting up.
So, I get there and Pikes Place is a big market with a lot of people, I just jumped in and started handing out these little bottles of Tibetan hot sauce.

Me handing out the samples. You can see them next to me.

Someone taking a sample, that was a cool feeling.
Then I realized where I was standing. I found myself set up right in front of the famous fish throwers at the market. One of them noticed me and came out to talk with me.

Holy crap, he is talking with me.
Initially, I thought I was in trouble. I had no permission to be doing what I was doing. But, he was a really cool guy. We talked, he told me about throwing fish and I told him about hot sauce. I gave him one of my stickers (you can see it in the picture, its the blurry circle on his apron) and a sample of Mama’s Fire Tibetan hot sauce. When he took the sample, it was an incredible feeling of being accepted by the city. You can see in the picture, it was amazing.

We had fun, he put my oceans of bodhi sticker on his apron.
Something just as cool and so I am spreading the word, is that Mama’s Fire Gourmet Sauce is now for sale in Seattle at Madison Market – now and was Central Coop, these guys have really believed in me. And, as of three months ago, three Whole Foods Stores Interbay,Roosevelt Square and Westlake.
After all that we went to the Space Needle. Here was our final view of Seattle that day.
Sacred Ingredients…Enlightened taste