Captain Spongefoot sauces.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Brief article

After losing his feet to frostbite in 1974, Paul DiBello's prosthetic foam replacements distinctively squished as he ran his sailing business on Lake Granby, earning him the nickname Captain Sponge-foot. The seven-time world championship skier on the U.S. Disabled Ski Team and founder of the competition program at Winter Park's National Sports Center for the Disabled has also had a longtime passion for spicy food, namely hot wing sauces. After winning gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2004 National Buffalo Wing Festival, DiBello went pro and developed a restaurant and private-label sauce business. He then entered the specialty grocery market in 2005 with three addictive varieties: Original...