What to eat when you're exploding with heat

- Tortilla chips and hot sauce

- Jalapeño peppers, roasted, blended and spread on bread with salted butter

- Coconut curry made as spicy as possible

- Hot sauce on popcorn

- Hot sauce on salad

- Hot sauce on pizza

- Hot sauce on everything

- Olives pickled with chili peppers

- Cucumbers doused with heavy shakes of cayenne pepper and garlic

- A whole habanero.

After sweating out every molecule of your desire, tame the heat with the following:

- Pomegranate, ripped apart, soft membrane bits included

- Dark chocolate dipped in raw honey

- Fresh-picked mulberries. Eat enough to stain your hands and mouth hazy purple

- Avocado smoothie (avocado, sweetened condensed milk, almond milk—blended)

- Apricot jam spooned straight from the jar

- An entire pineapple. Save the core to suck on later

- The ripest mango you can find, cubed and scooped out of the skin

- Cold, full fat yogurt topped with blueberries

- Frozen lemonade sipped with a big fat straw

- Baklava made by an Arab friend's mother or aunt

- Hot sweet tea (best shared).