Chili Madness [Paperback]

Jane Butel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 11, 1980

CHILI MADNESS, now with over 324,000 copies in print, collects more than 35 authentic recipes from all across the country for a fiesta of treasured concoctions that combine meat, chili, and spices in wondrous permutation, some-yes-using pork instead of beef, some-yes-adding tomatoes, some-yes-prepared with beans.

Recipes range from easy First Love Chili to Navajo Green, Reno Red, and the "six-Rolaid-rating" pride of Cincinnati, Murray's Girlfriend's Chili. They come from all over-championship recipes, restaurant recipes, great pots of things named for H. Allen Smith, Carroll Shelby, the city of Santa Clara. There is Chasen's Chili, Texas/Two Fingers Chili. Mike Roy's Housebroken Chili.

CHILI MADNESS also explains how to join chili clubs, receive chili newsletters, develop personal chili recipes, and enter them in competition. A full-alarm call to chili and everything to do with chili, the book includes tips on the best garnishes, the best go-togethers, and the best cool-down drinks.

Selection of the Book-of-the-Month and Quality Paperback book clubs, and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service.

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From the Back Cover

CHILI MADNESS

More than 35 best & tested recipes

FIRST-LOVE CHILI

GRINGO CHILI

PECOS RIVER BOWL OF RED

MURRAY'S GIRLFRIEND'S CINCINNATI CHILI

BUZZARD'S BREATH CHILI

HY ABERNATHY'S GEORGIA CHAIN-GANG CHILI

SANTA CLARA CHILI

CARROLL SHELBY'S CHILI

RENO RED

NAVAJO GREEN CHILI

Plus Legendary Origins & Spiritual Beginnings. Also Controversies & Further Crazines. Peppers & Powders. Go-Togethers & Cool-Downs. Mail-Order Sources Nationwide.

Go wild. Join chili societies, enter cook-offs, get the newsletters. Learn all the Methods to Chili Madness, and everything about the bowl of blessedness, the soup of the devil, the "strictly American" brew.

"Jane Butel has dedicated herself to prove to the public that chili has a taste all its own. Her credentials are authentic." (The New York Times)

About the Author

Jane Butel, an internationally recognized authority on the cuisine of the American Southwest, is a cooking teacher, owner of the Pecos Valley Spice Company, and author of more than 15 cookbooks. She owns and manages Jane Butel's Southwestern Cooking School (and its satellites) in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico; Scottsdale, Arizona; and beyond.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (January 11, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894801341
• ISBN-13: 978-0894801341
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,210,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jane Butel, the first to write about southwestern cooking, is an internationally recognized authority on the regional cooking of the American Southwest. In the late 1970's, following a successful career as one of America's top Consumer Affairs executives, she launched her southwestern writing, teaching, television, consulting, and spice business. Her Southwestern Cooking Schools in New Mexico and Scottsdale, Arizona, have garnered high recognition. Bon Appetit magazine selected it as one of the four best in the world and Gayot.com listed her hotel-based schools as the best in the United States and one of the world's top ten.

She also conducts tours to Mexico and Spain. Pecos Valley Spice Co., a trusted source for chiles, spices, and other authentic southwestern ingredients, was founded in 1978. She continues to spice up America's favorite cuisine with recipes from the rich culinary, cultural, and historical heritage of the Southwest. She has written eighteen cookbooks, including Northland's Real Women Eat Chiles, which was just released on March 24, 2006.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my most-used cook books, February 26, 2001

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This review is from: Chili Madness (Paperback)

This book came out in 1980 at the start of the Chili Craze. Contests were being held all over the US for best chili. Every weekend you could find a Chili Cook-off or Chili Tasting anywhere from hot-pepper-hating New England to 12-alarm-fire-chili-loving Texas. Even the Simpsons ended up doing a chili cook-off spoof (The Guatemalan Insanity Pepper episode is really great animation and very funny, too.)

I have made many of the chilis in the book, going so far as to buy the required chili pequenos, chili colorado and other special chilis in the recipes. Yes, they make a difference. And the book even has Cincinnati 5-Way Chili, which purists will scorn as "not REALLY chili" but which is addictive and great for guests who hate hot spices. (5-way chili is a slighty sweet, cinnamon spiced chili probably influenced by Middle-East immigrants in Cincinnati. It is served 2-way, 3-way or 5-way with onions, beans, cheese, and spaghetti. It's fun for kids, who can make up their own garnished dish.) The Texas Style hot chilis are really gorgeous. This is one of my all-time favorite books and I don't think in 20 years, anyone has really written a better book on chili than Jane Butel.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Meaty Recipes, September 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Chili Madness (Paperback)

A key focus is that genuine clili gets it's main flavor from authentic "chiles." All the recipes appear to be excellent, however if you are a low-fat person, this is probaly not the book for you.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best!, November 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Chili Madness (Paperback)

I've taken pride in my chili for 50 years. These are some of the BEST recipes I've ever tried. Kudos to Jane Butel Ginger Hamilton Westminster, Colorado