ChiliPodCast.com
Welcome to ChiliPodCast.com
This site along with its award winning podcast* is dedicated to the Promotion of Chili Cooking and Fun in Texas, and the promotion of Steve Heaser.
If you are coming here from the Steve Crescenzo Communications site, (I was interviewed by him) please don't try to learn too much here. This intended as fun. It is also to track the cooking and points of Steve, Jim, and Chris of South Side (well, not so much Chris).
This site strives to be user-driven. Please email me.
*Best Podcast about Chili Pod for 2005 and 2006 as voted on by chili cooks in the North Texas area.
About My Show
I started this site and podcast as a way to spend excess income. Some days I just feel the need to run up the credit cards and pay only the interest on them. Sure I'll never catch up, but hey, it's the American dream! We all have to sacrifice for our art.
The big news in the halls of the ChiliPodCast.com offices is that I got second place in the One-Man-Show division of showmanship in the 2007 Terlingua World Championship Chili Cookoff AND I won the best pod newsletter award. My buddies at South Side Foggy Mountain Chili got second in the Small Show category, I'd tell you more about it but this is my web site.
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Top Photos clockwise starting in upper left: me with Tracey and Tricia (twins. Hmm...twins); my teardrop camper; Candice Knight and her nice t-shirt; me with Lisa Knight; Cop Camp party Terlingua 2006; 1st place pod newsletter with trophy and artist; me getting Second Place in the One-Man-Show Category! Chili, Chilly, Chile impressed the judges almost as much as an Elvis impersonator giving out cheap, plastic leis!
About Terlingua
Terlingua is in the Big Bend area of Texas. It is a long way from almost everywhere--and that is what the founders wanted when they thought this up. The big cookoff is held on the first Saturday in November. In 2008, it falls on November 1.
If you have never heard of this "chili thing" the only thing that I can kind of compare it to is Burning Man. But only kind of because I have never been to that event.
Some Links:
My Photo Albums on this very site. This will grow over time.
CASI Web site The Chili Appreciation Society International
South Side Chili Their no-longer lame, out-of-date Web site, thanks to Mike Peters.
The History of Chili A well researched and written paper by Linda Stradley, author of I'll Have What They're Having - Legendary Local Cuisine
All About the Chile Pepper A good entry from Answers.com
About My Chili
In 2007, only 62 cooks beat me. That’s to say I managed to get to the quarter-final table with 51 other cooks.
Because I live in Texas, I need to get 12 points to qualify. I have 5 points this chili year from my 2nd place in Dangerfield, and two points from two other cookoffs that I can't remember where right now. And for those of you keeping score at home, Jim has 0.
I'm one of these cooks that is always looking for the perfect recipe or ingredient. I haven’t found it yet.
