About The Flavor Society

When the restaurant where our founder was the chef shuttered during the pandemic, she drew upon her lifelong love of crunchy, garlicky spicy things to develop her own interpretation of chile crisp in unique and creative flavors. Fun fact: She funded starting The Flavor Society with the prize money that she won on The Food Network's Guy's Grocery Games! Chef Althea Grey Potter has always loved food full of spice and flavor, starting when she was a baby and her parents would give her pepperoncini peppers as snacks! Here at The Flavor Society, we certainly did not invent hot sauce or chile crunch or crisp. Hot pepper sauces were first made in 7000 B.C. by the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who made chile condiments to preserve their native hot pepper crops and add flavor to their diet. We set out to create condiments that are unconventional, unique and packed with flavor. We love and have the utmost respect for the people who have created chile condiments all over the world. Our spicy, crunchy sauces are condiments inspired by Chinese chile crisp, Tunisian harissa, Italian preserved Calabrian chiles, Japanese crunchy garlic chile oils, Mexican salsa macha and many of our other favorite condiments.Read their story