Surveys the origins and rich history of this Southwestern dish and offers recipes and a guide to Chili restaurants

A Bowl of Red

Tolbert, Frank X.

Parenting & Relationships

DOUBLEDAY

Offers profiles of interesting musicians, cowboys, politicians, businessmen, and early settlers in Texas

Tolbert's Texas

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Big Bend resident rancher Hallie Stillwell has added her voice and favorite chili recipe to her friend Frank X. Tolbert's classic book, A Bowl of Red.Written by the late Dallas newspaper columnist and author, A Bowl of Red is an entertaining history of the peppery cowboy cuisine.  This new printing of the book is based on Tolbert's 1972 revised edition, in which he describes the founding of the World Championship Chili Cookoff, now held annually in the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas.Hallie Stillwell was one of the three judges at the first Terlingua cookoff, held in 1967. "We were blindfolded to sample the chili," the ninety-six-year-old writer/rancher says in her foreword. She voted for one of the milder concoctions; another judge cast his vote for a hotter version.  The third judge, who was mayor of Terlingua, sampled each pot but then pronounced his taste buds paralyzed and declared the contest a tie. There's been a "rematch" in Terlingua every November since then.  "I have never failed to attend," Stillwell says.Stillwell's recipe for lean venison chili is her favorite, one she prepared in large quantities for the hungry hands at the Stillwell Ranch in the Big Bend.  This new printing of the classic also features an index to other recipes in the book, such as "Beto's prison chili" and chili verde con carne (green chili).  The book also includes Tolbert's tales of searching out the best cooks of Southwestern specialties like rattlesnake "stew" and jalapeño corn bread.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Main Courses & Side Dishes

This book is the retelling of events in the life of real white and Indian people of the southwest in the 1860s & 1870s. It is historical but reads like fiction.

The Staked Plain (Southwest Life and Letters)

United States

Southern Methodist Univ Pr

The Staked Plain [Paperback] Frank X. Tolbert Frank X. Tolbert (Author) (Author), Tom Pilkington (Afterword) Paperback: 292 pages Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press (January 1, 1987) Language: English

The Staked Plain

History

Americas

Tolbert of Texas: The Man and His Work

History & Criticism

Texas Christian Univ Pr

Taylor Pub

Cooking Education & Reference

Texas A & M Univ Pr

Neiman-Marcus, Texas: The Story of the Proud Dallas Store

Neiman-Marcus, Texas: The Story Of The Proud Dallas Store

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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