Comments on: Cooking the Tree of Life http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/02/27/cooking-the-tree-of-life/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:31:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: To Bean or Not to Bean at the Chili Cookoff | Food & Think http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/02/27/cooking-the-tree-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-230 To Bean or Not to Bean at the Chili Cookoff | Food & Think Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:35:45 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=1000#comment-230 [...] My omnivorous boyfriend sampled almost everything, and he declared the best chili by a long shot to be that of Tony DeStratis and Rex Patt. The rest of the crowd agreed, voting the duo’s unusual offering to top honors. DeStratis told me the winning chili featured pork and beef meatballs with cilantro and lime, dark beer, three kinds of chilies, and seasonings, including his secret ingredient, toasted cardamom. DeStratis’s name sounded familiar, and I later realized I had mentioned him in my recent post about Cooking the Tree of Life. [...] [...] My omnivorous boyfriend sampled almost everything, and he declared the best chili by a long shot to be that of Tony DeStratis and Rex Patt. The rest of the crowd agreed, voting the duo’s unusual offering to top honors. DeStratis told me the winning chili featured pork and beef meatballs with cilantro and lime, dark beer, three kinds of chilies, and seasonings, including his secret ingredient, toasted cardamom. DeStratis’s name sounded familiar, and I later realized I had mentioned him in my recent post about Cooking the Tree of Life. [...]

]]> By: justin hess http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/02/27/cooking-the-tree-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-203 justin hess Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:39:39 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=1000#comment-203 This just added another entry into my 'places to visit' list! Don't be so quick to discount es cargo my friend,with a lil bit of garlic butter sauce,they are delicious! This just added another entry into my ‘places to visit’ list!
Don’t be so quick to discount es cargo my friend,with a lil bit of garlic butter sauce,they are delicious!

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