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Chili cook-offs, a fall tradition, have exploded in popularity over the last several years. Easy to organize and yummy to participate in, chili cook-offs are a perfect entertaining event.

The booklet in Chili Cook-off in a Box explains why chili cook-offs matter today, and describes the history of chili from pre-Columbian campfires to todays vegan versions. It gives instructions on how to organize the event around themes, such as five-alarm, vegetarian, carnivores delight, red chili, green chili, etc., and has profiles of chili cook-off winners with prize-winning recipes and tips.

Also included in the kit are:

  • Sheet to Track Entries (name, type of chili, designated number)
    • Numbered Table Tents (so judges dont know whose chili is whose)
    • Scorecards (rating taste, texture, appearance, creativity)
    • Judge Badges
    • Prize Ribbons for Contest Winners
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    CHILI COOK-OFF IN AN E-BOOK What youre holding in your hands is obviously - photo 1
    CHILI
    COOK-OFF
    IN AN E-BOOK

    What youre holding in your hands is obviously not a box. There are some items from the box version we just couldnt include in an e-book: the judges ribbons, prize ribbons, score cards, and pot ID cards pictured here.

    Go to http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/contestinabox.html to download and print facscimiles. Use your imagination in duplicating these materials for your own chili cook-off!

    Also by Gina Hyams Pie Contest in a Box Chili Cook-off in a Box - photo 2

    Also by Gina Hyams

    Pie Contest in a Box

    Chili Cook-off in a Box copyright 2012 by Gina Hyams All rights reserved No - photo 3

    Chili Cook-off in a Boxcopyright 2012 by Gina Hyams. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews.

    Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
    an Andrews McMeel Universal company
    1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106

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    ISBN: 978-1-4494-2219-6

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    For my chilihead brother, Kris Bolling

    CONTENTS The Chili State of Mind A Brief History of Chili Anatomy of a - photo 4
    CONTENTS The Chili State of Mind A Brief History of Chili Anatomy of a - photo 5
    CONTENTS

    The Chili State of Mind

    A Brief History of Chili

    Anatomy of a Chili Cook-off

    Chili Cook-off Themes

    The Zen of Judging Chili

    Prize-Winning Recipes and Tips from Chili Cook-off Champions

    El Conquistador Chili with Garlic Crme Frache and Candied Bacon Topping

    by Julie Renz

    Chili Ingredients Mail-Order Sources

    INTRODUCTION

    THE CHILI STATE OF MIND

    Chili is America, a true melting pot that still celebrates each individual ingredient.

    Tim Sarrantonio, chili champion

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    NO MATTER WHAT RACE, RELIGION, OR CLASS, ALL COOKS ARE CREATED EQUAL BEFORE A POT OF SIMMERING CHILI.

    Citizens across the nation celebrate this rib-sticking spicy stew. Its appeal transcends politics. Republican hunters love it and anarchist vegans do, too. Chili cook-offs are a way for families and communities to unite on common ground. You may disagree on the specifics of what makes for authentic chili, or even how to spell it, but everyone agrees that chili is good.

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    More than a particular recipe, chili is a state of mind. Or more precisely, as Mike BB Hughes, founding member of Central Texas Tolbert Chili Group, put it: Chili cooks are crazy. Thousands of people participate in chili cook-offs each weekend. These contests often benefit humanitarian causes. Chili champion John Jepson explains, What a great hobbyyou get to raise funds for charity, travel to interesting places, meet a great bunch of people, and satisfy the need for competition and excitementall the while eating great chili and having a cold beer.

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    To be a chilihead is to embrace the spice of life both literally and metaphorically. According to the McCormick spice company, teaspoon of chili powder has as many health-inducing antioxidants as cup of cantaloupe. The real thrill, though, is that chili peppers contain a chemical called capsaicin, which is sensed as a spicy burn and sends pleasure-pain signals to the brain that raise your heart rate and set off happy endorphins, like a runners high. You cant die from eating too many hot chili peppers, but you can develop something of an addiction.

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    While the competitive chili cook-off world is rife with factions and rivalries, at the end of the day its about community. Matt Timms, founder of the Brooklyn Chili Takedown, says that the difference between a good chili and a great one is how much love you put in that sh*t. He explains, You can follow a recipe to a T and it could easily be meh. But people come to a [ chili cook-off ] to show everyone how insane their cooking skills areand when you come with that attitude, you throw all your positive energy into that batch of chili, and people can taste it.

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    The pursuit of prize-winning chili inspires good times and goodwill. My hope is that Chili Cook-off in a Box , with its prize ribbons, judge badges, ID cards, blue ribbonwinning recipes, scorecards, and chili songs, will make for a happy day for you and yours. Just remember, in the immortal words of chili champion Matthew Lusk: Do not get liquored up when cooking your chili, as your taste buds get numb and you will tend to over salt.

    A NOTE ABOUT SPELLING

    Generally speaking, chili is the dish and chile means the pepper or, when capitalized, the South American country. Chile powder, however, refers to a blend of powdered chile peppers meant for chili. Ive also seen the word spelled chilly, chilie, chillie, and chilley. Chiliheads (or chili-heads) cant agree on how to spell their type of contest either. Its commonly spelled cook-off, cookoff, and cook off.

    For simplicity, I use chili to mean the dish, chile to mean the pepper, and cook-off to mean the contest.

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    Chili is like an urban legend. There are thousands of stories about it, some truth, some fiction. Chili takes us back in our genetic memory to the time we were squatting around the campfire.

    John Raven, Chili Appreciation Society International Hall ofFame Member

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    The history of chili begins in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, where chile peppers were integral to the indigenous diet. The Nahuatl (ancient Aztec) word for pepper was chilli. The fiery fruit was worshipped as part of native creation mythology and some tribes believed chili plant spirits protected the harvest.

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    The American meat stew that we know as chili today originated in Texas during the 1800s. Hardscrabble chuck wagon cooks found that tough wild cattle tasted better when it was long simmered with onions and chili peppers.

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