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Terlingua is the home of the CASI World Chili Cookoff each year. From what I’ve read, it’s a real wild circus for a few days.

Yep I use the 2006 winner's recipe. Tough to find anyone that does a chili grind in Indpls. Chili in the midwest is awful, and the wife definitely prefers when I eat the Texas variety!

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I've learned a lot from CASI. I used to make tomato-based chili with lots of beans and onions and grocery-store chili powder. It's good, and my wife likes it that way, but I mostly make Texas chili now. I'll get them used to it.

Now I get all my spices from Mild Bill's and the country store around the corner will do chili grind. I was going to enter my first competition this year but had to work that day. I now have the stove, the iron kettle, and all the various implements of taste bud destruction, such as the Cuminator (formerly a coffee grinder) that runs off my truck battery. I still need a 10' tent shelter and a banner proclaiming my chili to be worthy. I'll get there.