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A Pensacola couple are spicing things up at area restaurants and stores with their own line of table-top sauces.
The Zarina Bella line of green and red hot sauces features the face and name of Zarina Bowen. She and her husband, Frank, have recently launched the sauces, which they say enhance everything from seafood and stews to Bloody Marys and hot dogs.
"The only thing we don't put it on is bananas and cereal, but we do put it on eggs and omelets," Zarina Bowen said.
Born in North Africa to Sicilian parents, Zarina Bowen now finds herself right at home in Pensacola, where she and her husband have lived for the past 27 years. But the sauces bearing her face and name are finding a home in stores nationwide.
"I started the label with my wife's picture as the main theme and I added the peppers and her name. The name means beautiful queen or princess. We all liked it, and so we used it," Frank Bowen said.
While the couple have been working on the recipes for their sauces off and on over the past 20 years, it's only in the past nine months that they have been selling the sauces commercially. They will be promoting them locally this weekend at the Perdido Key Boat & Yacht Show and at the Gulf Coast Women's Expo.
The boat show is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Perdido Key Oyster Bar & Marina. The Women's Expo, which features several local vendors, takes place 9 a.m. to 8:30 tonight and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Pensacola Civic Center.
Jessica Pantucci enjoyed the Zarina Bella hot sauce recently with some nachos and a cold beer at Hub Stacey's on Innerarity Road.
"It's not too hot, which I like. If a hot sauce is too hot, I can't enjoy the taste of the food, plus it is good," Pantucci said. "I also like the fact that this stuff is from a Pensacola couple."
"Basically, we wanted to create a flavor-enhancement condiment that goes well with most any food the world over," Frank Bowen said. "Now, on a heat scale of 1 to 10, the green sauce is a 5 and the red sauce a 6. "
Zarina Bella graces the tables of several area restaurants, like the Oyster Bar in Perdido Key, as well as all Firehouse Subs restaurants and at Piggly Wiggly grocery stores nationwide. Locally shoppers can find the sauces at Joe Patti's Seafood, Ever'man Natural Foods, Bailey's Farmers Market and The Apple Market. In Orange Beach, Ala., Blalocks Specialty Stores, J and M Tackle Store and Tacky Jack's Restaurant carry the sauces.
The Zarina Bella line of green and red hot sauces features the face and name of Zarina Bowen. She and her husband, Frank, have recently launched the sauces, which they say enhance everything from seafood and stews to Bloody Marys and hot dogs.
"The only thing we don't put it on is bananas and cereal, but we do put it on eggs and omelets," Zarina Bowen said.
Born in North Africa to Sicilian parents, Zarina Bowen now finds herself right at home in Pensacola, where she and her husband have lived for the past 27 years. But the sauces bearing her face and name are finding a home in stores nationwide.
"I started the label with my wife's picture as the main theme and I added the peppers and her name. The name means beautiful queen or princess. We all liked it, and so we used it," Frank Bowen said.
While the couple have been working on the recipes for their sauces off and on over the past 20 years, it's only in the past nine months that they have been selling the sauces commercially. They will be promoting them locally this weekend at the Perdido Key Boat & Yacht Show and at the Gulf Coast Women's Expo.
The boat show is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Perdido Key Oyster Bar & Marina. The Women's Expo, which features several local vendors, takes place 9 a.m. to 8:30 tonight and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Pensacola Civic Center.
Jessica Pantucci enjoyed the Zarina Bella hot sauce recently with some nachos and a cold beer at Hub Stacey's on Innerarity Road.
"It's not too hot, which I like. If a hot sauce is too hot, I can't enjoy the taste of the food, plus it is good," Pantucci said. "I also like the fact that this stuff is from a Pensacola couple."
"Basically, we wanted to create a flavor-enhancement condiment that goes well with most any food the world over," Frank Bowen said. "Now, on a heat scale of 1 to 10, the green sauce is a 5 and the red sauce a 6. "
Zarina Bella graces the tables of several area restaurants, like the Oyster Bar in Perdido Key, as well as all Firehouse Subs restaurants and at Piggly Wiggly grocery stores nationwide. Locally shoppers can find the sauces at Joe Patti's Seafood, Ever'man Natural Foods, Bailey's Farmers Market and The Apple Market. In Orange Beach, Ala., Blalocks Specialty Stores, J and M Tackle Store and Tacky Jack's Restaurant carry the sauces.
Zarina Bowen, her son, Johnnie Bowen, center, and husband, Frank Bowen, display their Zarina Bella Hot & Sweet Red Sauce at the Oyster Bar on Perdido Key.
Brian Kelly
BrianKelly@PensacolaNewsJournal.com
BrianKelly@PensacolaNewsJournal.com
Published - April, 13, 2007
Pensacola couple like it hot
Sauces to be promoted at two weekend events
Pensacola couple like it hot
Sauces to be promoted at two weekend events