Word: chilies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While awaiting the coming of spring, the golfer has to ward off his malaise with appropriate diversions. One of the most popular means to avoid the doldrums during the long winter months is to play "ice golf." Every year over two hundred golfers take part in the Chili Open Golf Classic that is played in Akron, Ohio in the dead of winter...
...earnings surged 56%, to $23.2 million, on sales of $783 million. Even so, analysts say, average sales advances in Wendy's shops have slowed in recent months, and they expect that deceleration to continue. Still, Wendy's intends to stick with its limited line of hamburgers and chili, though some industry experts believe that this will make the company especially vulnerable to the rise in beef prices. Whatever strategy the chains choose, they are already on the edge of the frying pan. The big problem for the years immediately ahead will be to stay out of the fire...
...seen at public events without his derby or his pet cross-eyed mule, Sam Lewis has been the butt of jokes in San Angelo, Texas, for most of his 56 years. People laughed when someone put a live rattlesnake, with its mouth sewn shut, in his bedroll at a chili-cooking contest. They laughed even harder when he tried to peddle Hawaiian Delight pizzas, a terrifying concoction of Canadian bacon, pineapple chunks and cherries smothered in tomato paste and melted cheese...
...theory, it is not a great leap from the North American chili-tortilla parlor to the true provincial cuisine of Mexico. In fact, it would take years for the most diligent gringo to understand or annotate this peasant-rooted cuisine of peppers and cornmeal, arroz, barbacoa and relleno. Diana Kennedy, English by birth and Mexicana by persuasion, invested a large part of her life tasting and testing south of the border to produce The Cuisines of Mexico in 1972. She spent five more years researching the 1978 followup, Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico (Harper & Row; 288 pages...
Houston sends potential customers little glass oil wells and packets of Texas chili mix. Says David Tester of the Milwaukee Convention and Visitors Bureau: "We are like civic whores. We'll do anything to bring a convention to our community...