This variety of the Pequin chili pepper was supposed to be multicolored but they just went straight from green to red. But it ...

To begin with, firecracker shrimp, chicken skewers . . . and then bam! A Mercedes rear-ended them. “That was OK,” remembers Katie. “Then my mom goes to the trunk, and it was sealed shut.

Through the first half of its 60-year existence, the race had “Firecracker” in its title and the engines cranked on July 4 at either 10 or 11 a.m. The race would end before lunch got cold and ...