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by J. W. Rider, 29 August 1996

The Chili Recipe links were starting to get oversized for efficient downloading of the whole links page. So, I partitioned it into a file by itself. I'll probably play with the text color eventually, but in the mean time, I've tried to make it look much the same way that it was before.

Chili Recipes


In what seems like another lifetime, while I was an undergraduate student at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, I was the editor of the college newspaper, The Sul Ross Skyline, and then recipient of the first Wick Fowler memorial journalism scholarship. Wick Fowler, in addition to being a widely regarded Texas newspaperman, was a champion chili cook. Thus, the scholarship included a provision for requiring that I foster the culture of chili con carne, the national food of Texas. Alpine was just an hour or so north of Terlingua, site of many an international chili cookoff competition. It was a tough job, but I had Frank X. Tolbert (author of A Bowl of Red) on my side, and someone had to do it.

When my career went in a higher technological direction, I continued to keep track of chili-related society as a whole, and when I moved out into the Internet, chili became one of the first topics that I sought. Here are a smidgen of the web pages with recipes that I've run across.


These are the best of the group. Many a variant of the essence of chili:

I don't rank within the grade. The order in which you see the recipes listed here, while not exactly random, is a deeply held secret. Perhaps, one day, someone will think to tell me exactly what it is.
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