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Robert Mitchum In The Kitchen (old postcard)

Robert Mitchum would’ve turned 100 this year but we all knew that wasn’t going to happen. Continue Reading

Terry Funk’s Double Cross Ranch

We would’ve given anything to have been inside the Rex Baxter Building at the big 2017 Amarillo Texas Tri-State Open Chili Championship yesterday. Dozens of cooking teams from across the Great State converged on Amarillo with big cauldrons of hot Texas Red chili to offer patrons. Continue Reading

President Richard Nixon’s Chili Con Carne Recipe

We were leafing through old newspapers from the 1950s when we ran across (then) Vice President Richard Nixon’s favorite chili con carne recipe. We’ll leave the whys and wherefores of Nixon’s political career to civic historians as we’re only in it for the chili. Continue Reading

Gebhardt’s Chile Powder Is King In Texas

When we’re not conjuring a kettle of chili on our stovetop or prowling through the aisles at Zuppardo’s Supermarket we content ourselves with reading about powerful figures in the nearly -forgotten world of 1970s chili cookoffs. Continue Reading

Rosalynn Carter’s Chili Con Carne Recipe

We’re going to take the lay of the land and see if there is any interest in a presidential chili pop up restaurant. Of course we’ll have to load the crew up in the old Econoline and head back to Texas for the event. Texas is ground zero for chili in these United States. Continue Reading

President Dwight Eisenhower

Native Texan, and five star General Dwight Eisenhower was a notorious cook who ran his own kitchen tucked away on the 3rd floor of the White House where he tended to the affairs of the nation from 1953-1961. Continue Reading

2016 Winner Terlingua Chili Cook Off

Back in the 60s it was understood that the finest chili cook in all of Texas was Wick Fowler.

To chisel that assertion into stone, a group of chili lovers calling themselves ‘Chili Appreciation Society International’, led by Dallas newsman Frank X. Tolbert, issued a challenge to one H. Allen Smith, a New York-based funnyman who had written an inflammatory article titled “Nobody Knows More About Chili Than I Do” Continue Reading

Fiesta Is the Best Party In Texas

We’ve always marveled over the ‘Keep San Antonio’ lame tee shirts that plenty people in south Texas like to wear. There’s nothing lame about San Antonio. The city has the richest history in all of Texas; the Mexican food is without parallel in USA, and Doug Sahm, the greatest Texas musician of all time came up on the city’s streets. Continue Reading

Chef Cariño Cortez In Her San Antonio Restaurant Viva Villa Taquería

On a recent trip through south Texas we spent a long day in San Antonio on the trail of the last chili queen. We ranged across town stopping into diners, cafes and taquerias to see if we could find a woman on the range with a big kettle of chili burbling and a crowd of customers hunched over bowls of Texas Red. Continue Reading

Last weekend, San Antonio, Texas hosted the 39th edition of the Texas State Open Chili Championship. We were in Texas at the time but elbow-deep in prep for a food party so we had to miss out on the shootout.

What we would not have given…

Trader’s Village was the proving ground for the men and women who competed at the event. Continue Reading

RL Reeves Jr

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Robert Mitchum’s Chili Recipe

Winners 2017 Amarillo Texas Tri-State Open Chili Championship

President Richard Nixon’s Chili Con Carne Recipe

The Art And Science Of Chili: Joe DeFrate’s World Champion Chili (1975)

Rosalynn Carter’s Chili Con Carne Recipe

President Dwight Eisenhower’s Chili Recipe

2016 Original Terlingua International Frank X. Tolbert – Wick Fowler Championship Chili Cookoff Winner Announced

2016 San Antonio Chili Queens Chili Cook Off Results

Seeking The Last Chili Queen Of San Antonio

Suzanne Green Is The 2016 Texas State Open Chili Champion

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