The Great Chili Book: 101 Variations on "The Perfect Bowl of Red" [Paperback]

Bill Bridges (Author)

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The Great Chili Book is a tribute to America's most indigenous and hotly debated dish, with 101 recipes for making chili of all kinds.Here is the lore and legend of chili, an examination of its special place in the souls of its devotees, and a review of the fundamentals of a good chili - the cooking pot, seasonings, the debates over cubed versus ground meat, beans or no beans, and much more.At the heart of The Great Chili Book are the recipes, gleaned from every corner of the United States (with an unavoidable bias toward Texas and the Southwest): LBJ's Pedernales River Chili, Cincinnati Chili, Texas Prison Chili, Stella Hughes' Arizona Chili, and 97 more.Which of the 101 varieties of chili described here is "the ultimate bowl of red?" Readers will delight in seeking the answer. (6 X 9, 240 pages)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1st edition (June 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558212817
• ISBN-13: 978-1558212817
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,835,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, that's what this Chili Book is, May 24, 2010

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This review is from: The Great Chili Book: 101 Variations on "The Perfect Bowl of Red" (Paperback)

THE GREAT CHILI BOOK is one of ten chili books I refer to when I want to make chili differently than the two recipes I usually use. We have chili a lot in our house and both my Dad and my Mama have their favorite ways of cooking it. I grew up with their recipes and I have documented them in one of my "Amazon So You'd Like to Guides" and I hope you take a look at it. Both recipes are delicious, but when you've had them as often as I've had 'em, you sort of yearn for something a bit different. So, once a week, usually on Saturdays, I break out these ten books and search for a chili recipe I either haven't tried, or one I haven't made in a long time. Of course, like all cooks, I fudge a bit with the ingredients, but not all that much. I like to stick pretty close to the recipes, at least the first few times I make it, so I can get an idea of what the writer/recipe maker had intended.

And let me tell you, you'd be surprised at the subtleties there are in a chili recipe. As they say, no two chile recipes were created equal, but the recipes in this book have never let me down. I've got a lot of chili books, have tried a lot of recipes over the years, but the recipes here, like the recipes in my other nine fave books, have been consistently good. You can't go wrong with THE GREAT CHILE BOOK.