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High Noon: Chili Cook Off

All-or-Nothing Chili features classic spices plus coffee, ginger and cinnamon in a toasted seasonings base. Add pork, beef and buffalo for a half-time favorite. (Associated Press)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
All-or-Nothing Chili features classic spices plus coffee, ginger and cinnamon in a toasted seasonings base. Add pork, beef and buffalo for a half-time favorite. (Associated Press)
All-or-Nothing Chili features classic spices plus coffee, ginger and cinnamon in a toasted seasonings base. Add pork, beef and buffalo for a half-time favorite. (Associated Press)

COEUR d’ALENE - Chili, personified, would probably be a bully.

Spicy, beefy with an anything-goes recipe, if the meaty meal had a personality, that personality would be aggressive.

What other food, if foods could, would rear back and punch you in the face? Noodles? No way. Try again.

Chili? Chew-betcha.

“Isn’t that what it’s supposed to do?” asked Michael Montoya, sampling samples Thursday at the inaugural Chili Cook Off at the Best Western Plus Coeur d’Alene Inn. “If you’re going to do the chili you’ve got to have spice and flavor.” Read More. Tom Hasslinger, CdA Press

Do you like chili? What makes a bowl-of-red delicious?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog