I tossed on a jacket and boots the first day that the temperature briefly dipped under 65 degrees here in Louisville, Ky. Then I made my way to Toasty’s Tavern, an easy-going neighborhood bar, where I ...

People love a good bowl of homemade chili, and most of us who make it at home use a special blend of spices called chili powder — ground chili pepper often mixed with cumin, onion, garlic and salt — ...

It's easy to make chili powder. You can add more or less ancho seeds to make it hotter or milder, and you can adjust the cumin and garlic powder the way you like it. This recipe is from Robb Walsh's ...

Reminders of my early attempts at preparing homemade chili are recorded on the pages of my Chasen’s Chili recipe, clipped from some long-ago ’70s source. Rust-red splatters of chili powder-spiked ...