Events
October, 1976
There's war in the world of gourmet chili. Or at least a schism. Since 1967, a group of Texas businessmen, raconteurs and assorted eccentrics has been staging an annual World Championship Chili Cook-off at Terlingua, a remote and abandoned mining camp at the edge of the Big Bend National Park on the Texas--Mexico border. Although it takes place some 200 miles from the nearest commercial airport and about that far from anything else, the Terlingua chili contest, started as a stunt, has become a S...
