It’s National Chili Day!

Little’s Specialty Foods will be doing a tasting at Walter Stewart’s Market from 11am – 2pm featuring Chili Pepper Chili – Original Seasoning Mix and new product Red Chili Lime – Original and Hot Seasoning Blends.

Here’s some chili trivia in the history category, from the National Chili Day website:

“Most historians agree that the earliest written description of chili came from J.C. Clopper, who lived near Houston. While his description never mentions the word chili this is what he wrote of his visit to San Antonio in 1828: ‘When they [poor families of San Antonio] have to lay for their meat in the market, a very little is made to suffice for the family; it is generally cut into a kind of hash with nearly as many peppers as there are pieces of meat–this is all stewed together.’ ”