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This trick also works for other hearty braises, like beef stew. Meat and other fatty ingredients have a tendency to muffle ...

“Chili is a largely a state of mind,” wrote Bill Bridges in “The Great American Chili Book,” and nowhere is that truer than in the spicy world of chili cook-offs, where a champion’s ...