The Great Chili Confrontation [Hardcover]

H. Allen Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1969

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 188 pages
• Publisher: Trident Press; First Edition edition (1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671270230
• ISBN-13: 978-0671270230
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,407,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you ever wanted to know about chili--and more!, October 25, 1999

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georgia l. gibbons ([e-mail]) (phoenix AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Great Chili Confrontation (Hardcover)

Reading this book, over 25 years ago, I began drinking milk with chili: according to the author this is the only suitable drink with chili, and he was exactly correct, in my opinion.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars as funny as it gets, March 5, 2006

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Fifteen Iguana (WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Great Chili Confrontation (Hardcover)

One of the funniest nonfiction books I have ever read. Smith writes an article claiming that the main ingredients in chili are ego and envy. A bunch of Texans get insulted by his article and demand a cook-off, thereby proving his thesis. The resulting trip to the Lone Star State is madly funny. "She believes things a mud turtle would blush to believe." I once made the mistake of lending this book to a friend who was recovering from surgery. He laughed till it hurt.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars H. Allen does it again ..., August 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Great Chili Confrontation (Hardcover)

Of course, y'all know how the chili cookoff got started?

Ol' H. had a passion for (what he called) chili, and being a United Presss Syndicate feature columnist he worked the topic into his articles whenever it became convenient.

A feller named Wick Fowler was also a chili fancier, and being a jounalist himself in Texas, decided that H. Allen "didn't know chili from beans". The gauntlet was flung, and the challenge made. They chose Terlingua TX as the site of the cookoff "because a disaster could happen there and no one would know it."

The rest is history, and any number of versions exists as to how it transpired.

I like Harry's the best.