As the big day approaches for the first Patriot Chili cook-off, chile cooks from around the state are opening lock boxes and bringing out their secret ingredients and carefully kept family favorite chili recipes are being prepared.  One can imagine a chili wizard, late at night, murmuring incantations while stirring  a bubbling cauldron of their aromatic concoction. Or perhaps it's just a chili aficionado expressing their joy over the flavor that the special ingredient gives their pot of Red.

But the real proof will be in the tasting. Come and join in the fun. Taste a bit of everyone's best offering and you be the judge.

I'm sure you'll agree, I make the best chili in the known universe!

Chili Confrontation Update . . . . . Every entry is a winner!

To avoid harsh comments and verbal abuse we are forced to concede that most patriots actually do make the best chile in the world. To insure your place in the winner's circle and Missouri Chili Hall of Fame, please be sure to register prior to the event.

The shelter at Wipple Field has plenty of outlets for Crock-Pots and there will be a small microwave on hand. Again, please register your entry with a brief description. (Old family favorite, all meat, not suitable for the aged or infirmed, etc.)

Chilidog, for the Missouri Patriots Chili Appreciation Society

Register at calienteexpress@gmail.com

The Grandaddy of all Chili Cook-Offs

"Nobody knows more about chili than I do" is the title of an article published in the August 1965 or 66 issue of Holiday Magazine. This brash bit of braggadocio instantly ignited a raging controversy that is still simmering today. The Great Chili Confrontation was stated when a writer by the name of H. Allen Smith penned those fighting words.

Smith writes, "Without chili I believe I would wither and die. I stand without a peer as a maker of chili, and a judge of chili made by other people. No living man, and let us not even think of women in this connection, no living man, I repeat, can put together a pot of chili as ambrosial, as delicately and zestfully flavorful, as the chili I make. This is a fact so stern, so granitic, that it belongs in the encyclopedias, as well as in all standard histories of civilization.

"That is the way of us chili men. Each of us knows that his chili is light-years beyond other chili in quality and singularity' each of us knows that all other chili is vile slop that a coyote would turn his back on it."

The first to take serious umbrage at Smith's remark were Frances X. Tolbert, the author of a small book called; "A Bowl of Red" and Wick Fowler, of Austin, Texas. Tolbert released what was termed the "Tolbert Tantrum" in his column, Tolberts Texas. He wrote many hateful things about Smith's chile, calling it chili flavored vegetable soup.

Mr. Fowler, was the proprietor of an Austin, TX. chili factory that produced a product know as "Wick Fowler's 2 Alarm Chili Mix." He sent a package of his chili mix to Smith with a letter resplendent with insults.

The letters flew back and forth between these passionate chili lovers and thus was born the first official chili cook-off.

Stay tuned for the continuing saga.

The First Missouri Patriots

Chili Confrontation

On September 24, at High Noon, Patriot Chili Cookers, Chili Lovers and members of the Missouri Patriot community will be gathering to enjoy fellowship and a bowl or two of the best chili in the known universe.

Feel free to come early and harass the cooks or just hang out and watch culinary magic at work.

We'll plan to start tasting about one.

For directions and map; google maps 
For additional information; calienteexpress@gmail.com

THE FIRST LADY HATES CHILI

SO SHE WON'T BE THERE!

SO, WHAT'S GONNA' BE YOUR EXCUSE?

The GREAT PATRIOT'S

CHILI CONFRONTATION

Stay tuned, details to follow.......

The Great Chili Confrontation, Part #1

"Nobody knows more about chili than I do" is the title of an article published in the August 1965 or 66 issue of Holiday Magazine. This brash bit of braggadocio instantly ignited a raging controversy that is still simmering today. The Great Chili Confrontation was stated when a writer by the name of H. Allen Smith penned those fighting words.

Smith writes, "Without chili I believe I would wither and die. I stand without a peer as a maker of chili, and a judge of chili made by other people. No living man, and let us not even think of women in this connection, no living man, I repeat, can put together a pot of chili as ambrosial, as delicately and zestfully flavorful, as the chili I make. This is a fact so stern, so granitic, that it belongs in the encyclopedias, as well as in all standard histories of civilization.

"That is the way of us chili men. Each of us knows that his chili is light-years beyond other chili in quality and singularity' each of us knows that all other chili is vile slop that a coyote would turn his back on it."

The first to take serious umbrage at Smith's remark were Frances X. Tolbert, the author of a small book called; "A Bowl of Red" and Wick Fowler, of Austin, Texas. Tolbert released what was termed the "Tolbert Tantrum" in his column, Tolberts Texas. He wrote many hateful things about Smith's chile, calling it chili flavored vegetable soup.

Mr. Fowler, was the proprietor of an Austin, TX. chili factory that produced a product know as "Wick Fowler's 2 Alarm Chili Mix." He sent a package of his chili mix to Smith with a letter resplendent with insults.

The letters flew back and forth between these passionate chili lovers and thus was born the first official chili cook-off.

Stay tuned to the continuing saga of the First Great Chili Confrontation.