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I finished it! What an amazing book, very very packed with chili history for its day, and its very exciting to see all these recipes and people's views on chili. I recommend it to anyone interested in chili.

I shared an interesting note about this book on Facebook, regarding a phrase made immortal by Star Trek 14 years later. You'll just have to look on my timeline to find it. :) Otherwise, still loving it, I'm reading many of the submitted letters now, which I believe are the final part of the book.

This book has really made me think... I was heavily touched by the chapters about Dawn Wisner Johnson and Steve Crumbacher, both of whom I am friends with.

I really like how this author writes. As an added feature, a friend of mine who is into chili anthropology as well, recommended this book as one of the holy grails of chili history. She is right.

Sadly, this book is on hold while I am working on a nutritional anthropological study of Chili Con Carne through the 3 most highly praised tomes of the genre. The problem is, those books are leading me to other books and papers to research, so I am going to have to read this book when I need a break from my Chili research. My apologies to those who were hoping for more from it in a more expedient manner.

...of 205 pages.

This book is complicating things for me as a budding (and selective) nutritional anthropologist. The book makes references to documents and newspaper articles, as well as other books, the earliest of which dates back to the mid 1500s. After completing this book, and hopefully after reading the elusive copy of "With Or Without Beans", I am going to have to do a lot more research!

People may not be attracted to these three books for the purpose of general reading, especially given the way the last two in that list are composed, but in the chili community, they are prized rather highly.