Gwendolyn learned how to cook from her mother, Emmaline Humphries Stinson. In 2007, Emmaline's Hot Sauce won the Whole Foods Local Hero Award.

Gwendolyn began selling the sauce at local farmer's markets and doing food tastings in the tri-state area. They helped her realize her dream of bottling and selling sauce. The twin’s mother, Gwendolyn Stinson Crowe, taught them how to make the sauce that is an original recipe of her mother, Emmaline. When we were in quarantine and taking care of our mother, we promised her we would not let her dream die,” says Alice. This past year we’ve had tough challenges, lots of pain and loss. The photo on the bottle is Emmaline's wedding photo in 1910.

Alice is also the author of How to Get Black on Track, a self-empowerment guide. She is a cancer survivor and founder of a group, Black Girls at Ease, to help Black women and girls create healing circles and find resources that promote ease in their lives. We knew we had to resurrect it back on the market,” says Alice Crowe who handles the firms' civil litigation. Mom’s hot sauce was a comfort food that was also healthy. People sent us email telling us how much the sauce meant to them.

“The re-launch of Emmaline’s All-Natural Hot Sauce is driven by customer feedback during the past challenging year, and our desire to take what our mother started and keep it going. Alicia also performed a live tribute album to the late Alberta Hunter on Spit Slam Records. Alicia spent over two decades training service providers and helping single dads and mothers navigate the legal system and stay connected to their children. A thick, rich, smooth well-seasoned peppery flavor that leaves just enough kick on your tongue to spark your joy!' says Alicia, who practices real estate law and is the author of the book Real Dads Stand Up! What Every Single Father Should Know About Child Support, Rights and Custody. We make our hot sauce the traditional way with fresh peppers, herbs, spices, and simple homespun goodness, just like our grandmother, Emmaline. 'If you love good home-style cooking, then you know you've got to have this sauce. As proud graduates of Howard University School of Law, the two have been working together for 20 years as attorneys in their own practice handling legal cases, but now they are teaming up to keep their family legacy alive. Alice and Alicia Crowe are identical twin lawyers turned sauce-entrepreneurs who are now working on a different type of case, bottling and selling Emmaline’s All-Natural Hot Sauce, a family-owned line of hot sauce that is three generations old and is made from their grandmother's original recipe.

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