Racing and car legend Carroll Shelby died today in Dallas at the age of 89. He’d been ill for some time, but it’s still a sad day in the auto world. Not to mention the decadent Texas chili world.

TERLINGUA, Texas — If you want to know just how seriously Texans take their chili, take a step into the wild, wild west where an annual chili cookoff spices up more than just the tastebuds. Every year ...

TERLINGUA, Texas, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Terlingua International Chili Championship -- the cook-off which began as a playful gag and has evolved into a world-class cooking event and a legendary ...

“Chili is a largely a state of mind,” wrote Bill Bridges in “The Great American Chili Book,” and nowhere is that truer than in the spicy world of chili cook-offs, where a champion’s mindset — along ...

Chili is as Texan as cowboys. After all, the first dishes of chili were handed out to cowhands off of chuckwagons, according to one chili champion who attended the 41st Annual VASA (Victoria and ...