Designed primarily for entertainment, the choices at right do however contain some useful content. Spice up your life with chili fiction, submit your recipe, play the jukebox - it's free, or learn to talk the pepper talk...

The recipes posted represent a variety of individual cooking techniques. Included are some recipes of past cook-off winners, firehouse recipes from across the country, and a growing list submitted from chili cooks, all thinking that their "bowl of red" is how chili should be made.

Habañero Hell is the result of a bottle of Dave's Insanity Sauce given to me one Christmas. This was my first introduction to a world of hot sauces and the variety of peppers used to create these little 5 oz. bottles of liquid inferno. Pure entertainment, unless of course you happen to have one of these bottles at hand - if the label says habañero - take it seriously. If your only image of a bottle of "hot sauce" is Tabasco - take a look at this collection.

To Bean or Not to Bean and Chili Today, Hot Tamale contain some useful information, but are also loaded with assorted stories, facts, fictions, and bits of trivia. Learn what to do when the pepper bites back, how hot peppers are measured, the Scoville Unit scale, and whether size really doesn't matter, or maybe it's all in the shape. Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato, or better known as Maria Muldaur recorded "It Ain't the Meat, It's the Motion", and although not a reference to chili and stirring, the question of the 'meat' is addressed here too.

Take a stroll through Pepperville; review chili recipes, learn about peppers, chili trivia, facts and fiction, a chili journey you'll find both informative and entertaining. No 'yo quiero Taco Bell here - these recipes are genuine, and the stories are well, mostly true.
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