Texas Red Chili - Bowl of Red

Texas Red Chili - AKA Bowl of Red - AKA Chili Con Carne The timeframe and origins of chili are debatable such as many things in history. Did it start in the US or did it come from Spain? In 17th century there is an old Southwestern Native American legend that a chili recipe was put on paper by a beautiful nun, Sister Mary of Agreda of Spain. In the 18th century there are records in San Fernando de Bar, now know as the city of San Antonio, of a spicy “Spanish” stew that is similar to chili. In the 19th century things became more clear. Chili was cooked on chuckwagons where Cowboy cooks didn’t carry perishable items, it was made popular in Tex prisons, it went national when Texas sets up a stand at the1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. My favorite account is the women of San Antonio known as the “Chili Queens” selling this they called chili that was makde with dried chilis and beef in the Military Plaza Mercado. From the July 1927 issue of Frontier Times. In this article, Fran