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The event was a competition of chili cooking. Winners of the contest automatically qualified for the World Championship Chili Cookoff at Terlingua, Texas. [1] The rules were few and simple, being no more than: All chili must be made from scratch at the site of the contest. Women are barred from entering the contest as chefs.
Allen competed with Wick Fowler in the first chili cookoff in history, held in Terlingua, Texas, in October 1967. The competition ended in a tie. According to his book, The Great Chili Confrontation, three judges sampled the chili. Smith and Fowler received one vote each with a third judge uttering a decision that was undiscernable to either ...
As early as 1970, many communities have hosted non-ICS cook-offs, leading to a competing "World Championship" cook-off in Terlingua, Texas. The UK Chilli Cook-off Association organises chilli cook-offs as throughout the UK as fundraisers, culminating in the UK grand final at the Upton Cheyney Chili Festival near Bath, UK – Winners qualify for ...
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The fence the “chili heads” used was constructed by undocumented Mexican workers who labored annually for the Cook-Off organizers at $5 a day plus meals and rustic lodging. [26] Among the founders of the first chili cookoff in 1967 was car manufacturer Carroll Shelby, who owned a 220,000-acre (890 km 2) ranch nearby. [27]
The competition is a single-elimination tournament played between chefs divided into East and West divisions, consisting primarily of alumni or champions of other cooking competition series (particularly, those aired by Food Network). [1]