Product Description

Time to Chow Down and Chili Up!

Here is the most comprehensive guide ever to making and enjoying America's favorite meal in a bowl.

From California's Gilroy Super Garlic Chili and Florida's Havana Moon Chili to Wisconsin's Green Bay Chili and New Hampshire's Yankee Bean Pot Chili, Chili Nation features chili recipes from all fifty states.  With their incomparable wit and style, Jane and Michael Stern offer chili history and trivia, a mail-order guide to the best spices and peppers, and tales of beloved chili parlors coast to coast.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #448327 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-05
• Released on: 1999-01-05
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 9.16" h x .49" w x 5.90" l, .66 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

From Library Journal
From Chili a la Whistle Stop (Alabama) to Serious Capitol Punishment Chili (District of Columbia) to Code 10 Chili (Wyoming), you'll find every imaginable version of what the authors describe as our "one truly national shared food." There are chilies with beans and without, with meat and without, green chilies, and many variations on the classic "bowl o'red." The Sterns' Roadfood (1976) and other books on American food are well known, and their latest is fun to browse through. For most collections.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Jane and Michael Stern document that every state in the Union has its own approach to chili, the Texas-created national dish. Devotees of the original "bowl of red" may fume in protest that Maryland's shrimp and crabmeat in cream sauce lightly rouged with chili powder stretches the definition of chili beyond the breaking point. Michigan's Upper Peninsula stuffs its miners' pasties with chili instead of the traditional meat and rutabaga filling. Washington State spikes its chili with plenty of coffee. Florida crosses chili with Cuban picadillo. Vermont mellows out the bite of chili peppers with maple syrup. And what does Hawaii do? Naturally, it studs its chili with chunks of macadamia nuts. One can read this book as the triumph of spicy cooking across the breadth of America or as a perversion of authentic ethnic cookery. Mark Knoblauch

Review
Praise for Jane and Michael Stern:

"Jane and Michael Stern...should be given a medal and then promptly sent off to donut rehab."
--Time Out New York

Praise for Eat Your Way Across the U.S.A.:

"Jane and Michael Stern's Eat Your Way Across the U.S.A. offers rhapsodic celebrations of American regional food."
--New York magazine

"The Sterns have compiled a cross-country culinary guide that should be stashed in every food lover's glove compartment, right next to the maps and the Swiss Army knife.  .  .  .  [This book] sure does make you want to head out to the back roads and blue highways and chow down."
--People magazine