Street Food: A locally made hot sauce heats up the competition
Lawerence Russell preps oven-smoked peppers and roasted garlic for Black Sheep’s hot sauce. Russell rents commercial kitchen space at Church Health in Crosstown Concourse, where he makes one or two eight-gallon batches of hot sauce a week. (Ziggy Mack/Special to the Daily Memphian)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington covers the Memphis Grizzlies and writes about Memphis culture, food, and civic life. He lives in the Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood of Midtown with his wife, two kids, and two dogs.
Black Sheep Bottling sells its hot sauce at four local farmers markets in season: Downtown, Cooper-Young, Bartlett and Hernando. You can also find it on the shelf at the Curb Market, Tamboli’s, Oxbeau and Charlie’s Meat Market.
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