Field Report: 2023 Original Terlingua International Championship Chili Cookoff

2023 Original Terlingua International Championship Chili Cookoff

For the past six decades a few thousand chile pepper loving oddballs, freaks, and weirdos have descended upon Terlingua, Texas in the Chihuahuan Desert in early November to pay tribute to Wick Fowler and Frank X. Tolbert at the Original Terlingua International Championship Chili Cookoff. Continue reading

A History of Birria From Jalisco, Mexico To The Trans-Pecos And Rio Grande Valley Of Texas

A History of Birria From Jalisco, Mexico To The Trans-Pecos And Rio Grande Valley Of Texas

The list of possible origins of birria is longer than a Mississippi preacher’s Sunday sermon

Mexican folklore claims that the tiny western state of Colima on the Pacific ocean is where birria was invented in the 16th century.

Legend has it that a shepherd had to abandon his goats in a cave and flee for his life due to a volcanic eruption. When he returned he found his herd had been trapped and cooked by the molten lava. Continue reading