How to eat: chilli con carne — theguardian.com

Saddle up, Word of Mouth! This month, How to Eat – the blog attempting to define the ideal way to enjoy Britain’s favourite dishes – is moseying on down the trail, crossing from Texas into Mexico in order to settle, once and for all, what constitutes the ultimate chilli con carne. The International Chili Society insists that this cannot be done. “From the time the second person on Earth mixed some chile peppers with meat and cooked them, the great chilli debate was on; more of a war, in fact,” proclaims its website. But what do they know? Being American, they can’t even spell “chilli”. And, clearly, they have never encountered How to Eat, where, each month, after the moderators have sieved out the threats of violence and the dust has settled, a nation invariably comes together as one and, smiling wryly to itself, admits: “You know what? That weird, bald fella who writes How To Eat? He was right.”* So, without further ado, let’s get to rustling up the perfect chilli.

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