{"id":1953,"date":"2009-01-12T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2008-12-23T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T16:05:29","slug":"chilily-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/chilily-season\/","title":{"rendered":"chili(ly) season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Puns aside, could you the good reader provide me with a definitive answer as to when chili season begins? I once thought it coincided with flannel and football. I’ve heard it is once temperatures drop below freezing at night.<\/p>\n

\"cheelee\"Regardless, we’re clearly mired in the best time of year for the crock pot\/stock pot dish. A new book<\/a><\/strong> just came out on the subject.<\/p>\n

It has infinite possibilities outside the loosely-structured base ingredients. Ever had mushroom chili…white chili? Ever made a pot on Sunday and coasted through the week on the stuff?<\/p>\n

While you’re pondering your ingredient list for your next batch, stew (wocka wocka) on these fun chili facts:<\/p>\n

1) competition chili<\/a><\/strong> does not permit the addition of beans<\/p>\n

2) Cedar Rapids, IA has a chili festival<\/a><\/strong> every year with hundreds of entries. I’d like a commitment to that<\/em> as my<\/em> “Davenport Promise”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Puns aside, could you the good reader provide me with a definitive answer as to when chili season begins? I once thought it coincided with flannel and football. I’ve heard it is once temperatures drop below freezing at night. Regardless, we’re clearly mired in the best time of year for[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[381,289,92],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-chili","tag-cooking","tag-soup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-vv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}