Linda Odom cools a spoonful of her world-champion chili.
Duo are first husband and wife to both win first place at world chili championship in Terlingua
Linda Odom will give you her recipe, but you can’t cook her chili.
Try anyway, and you’ll need floaters and dumps. It’s OK to use the tube, Linda has found, or you can grind your own, her husband George’s preferred method. Don’t worry about the jargon; you’ll pick it up soon enough.
No beans though. No exceptions.
“If you put beans in your chili,” Linda says, “you don’t know beans about chili.”
