This web page presents the content of the Great Chili Cookbook.

This cookbook was published in 1992 by the The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan. I must have purchased it at one of the chili cookoffs I attended at that time.

I was going through some old books and came across it. Rather than just throw it in the trash, I thought I would preserve it electronically. I underestimated the amount of work required to scan, OCR, format, and convert it for the web!

It's a tribute to the chili cookoffs attended by me, my friend Frank Klancnik, and our families. And of course, to Smoke in the Hole Chili!

Here is a facsimile of this cookbook: Great Chili Cookbook

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Table of Contents

North Central Regional Chili Cook-Off Recipes

 

1991 -1980 Champion Cooks

Eighty cooks travel from five states and two countries to vie for the North Central Regional Chili title each year. This is Michigan’s largest chili cook-off where cooks brew the best chili north of Texas.

 

Renegade Chili Cook-Off Recipes

 

1991 through 1988 and 1985 Champion Cooks

Over 40 cooks display their culinary creativity in this “anything in the pot” chili cook-off each year. Know this: real chili has no beans!

 

The Lark Chili Cook-Off Recipes

 

1991 - 1988 Champion Cooks

Michigan’s elite chili cook-off held annually at The Lark, an exclusive restaurant in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

 

International Chili Society World Championship Chili Cook-Off Recipes

 

1991 -1967 Champion Cooks

Hundreds of cooks compete annually for world honors at the International Chili Society World Championship chili cook-off in California. The cooks qualify to participate by winning world-wide sanctioned cook-offs such as the North Central Regional and The Lark Chili Cook-Offs.

 

Great Chili Cook-Off

 

Over 120 cooks compete at the Great Chili Cook-Off to support The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan’s fight against kidney and urinary disease.

 

Chili Peppers  

A summary of popular species of chili peppers.

 

The First Chili Cook

 

An interesting story!

 

National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, Inc.

 

Kidneys are the body's chemist.

 

 

Chili Glossary

 

Chili terminology.

 

Index of Chili Recipes

7/8 CHILI Allegani Jani’s Chili Bottom of the Barrel Gang Ram Tough Chili
Buzzard Breath Chili C.V. Wood’s Chili Capitol Punishment
Chili the Kid Chili Vino Chili Woody DeSilva
Dad’s Sat. Nite Chili Day Later Chili DeFrates’ Chili
Drexal’s Chili Fire on the Mountain Chili Fireworks Chili
Forked Tongue Chili Fowlers’ Chili Hemroyd Heaven
Jay’s Chili Los Venganza Del Almo Margo ‘s Chili
Motor City Chili Nevada Annie’s Champion Chili Original Sin
Reno Red Robinson’s Chili San Antonio Red
Second Strike Renuked Seconds Anyone? Sespe Creek Chili
Shotgun Willie Chili Smith’s Chili Smoke in the Hole
Subterranean Chili Tarantula Jack’s Thundering Herd Buffalo Tail Chili Timber’s Chili
Timebomb Chili Tongue Torture Chili Tony’s Chili
Valdez’s Chili Valega’s Chili Winsor’s Chili