
Chili Madness: A Passionate Cookbook by Jane Butel (2nd Edition)
Over 1 Million Copies Sold. THE Cookbook for Chili.
Calling all chiliheads! This revised edition of Jane Butel's instant classic includes more than 160 recipes to feed the irresistible passion and teach the methods to chili madness. These recipes are not only for chili, but for all kinds of delicious dishes that use chilies in some creative and unexpected ways. Included throughout are bits of legendary origins and spiritual beginnings, a chili rating scale, and cook-off lore. In addition, Jane guides you through parching and peeling your own dried pods and fresh peppers, the 10-Step Chili Fitness Plan, the controversy of beans vs no beans, and beef vs. pork.
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Book details
- Author
- Jane Butel
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Cooking › Regional & Cultural › American › Southwestern States
Cooking › Courses & Dishes › Soups & Stews - Topics
- chili recipes · Southwestern cooking · chili peppers · Tex-Mex cuisine · soups & stews · cook-off culture · regional American cuisine
- ISBN-13
- 9781681624822 (Paperback)9781681624839 (Hardcover)
About the author
JANE BUTEL is the author of 22 cookbooks on the cuisine of the American Southwest and Regional Mexican cooking, including many bestsellers.
Butel’s cooking school has been recognized as the best in the United States by Gayot.com and one of the four best cooking schools in the world by Bon Appétit magazine. She has hosted four television shows as well as national radio shows.
When she’s not writing, Butel conducts hands-on cooking schools and culinary tours, and runs Pecos Valley Spice Company, which she founded in 1978. Her cookbooks draw on the same chiles, spices, corn masa and beans she selects for use in her cooking school.





