Winners 58th Annual Original Terlingua International Frank X. Tolbert – Wick Fowler Memorial Championship. Chili Cookoff
Category: The Art and Science of Chili
2025 Frank X. Tolbert–Wick Fowler Original Terlingua International Championship Chili Cook‑Off
Back in the 80s when I first started pilgrimaging to Terlingua for what we just called ‘The Wick’ the little dusty mining town was a mite different. There were zero airbnbs, you could buy a nice-sized plot of land for a couple thousand bucks and entering or leaving nearby Mexico was as simple as hopping on a raft or wading the Rio Grande.
RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Carroll Shelby Texas Chili With Ground Turkey
The underground economy in New Orleans is still thriving. I did a friend a nice favor recently and in exchange he gifted me a three pound packet of Jennie O ground turkey.
Texas chili man John Billy Murray, 1988.
Back in 1984, Murray traveled ten hours from his home in Humble to the Original Terlingua International Frank X. Tolbert-Wick Fowler Memorial Championship chili shootout deep in the heart of Big Bend country.
Shanghai Jimmy James Skaliski in 1976
“There was this beer sop Meskin food place called Shanghai Jimmy’s, and if we didn’t eat there two night a week our faces would break out…” said Sherrod.
Sherrod’s words became part of the lore of Shanghai Jimmy’s Texas Chili Rice.
rl reeves jr’s frito pie recipe
Volunteer Fire Department Chili Con Carne Recipe
When that cold nor’easter blew in from Lake Pontchartrain last night I got to thinking about chili.
Texas chili.
Texas Red to be precise.
I retired undefeated from the Texas chili wars over a decade ago. Back in the 90s, well before Top Chef became a thing, I organized a series of cooking competitions called Texas Top Cook. I would visit the best restaurants in Austin with an open letter to the cooks in the kitchen.
editor’s note: this is an article I posted in the early days of the Scrumptious Chef site]
Out here in Austin, Texas it’s getting hard to find a good bowl of chili.
How can that be?
Well I can tell you, your prospects of sitting down to a big bowl of pho are decidedly more rosy than finding a competent bowl of Texas-style chili.