Chili is an institution in Texas.  Why, Chili was created in Texas!  Most culinary historians agree that a group of Canary Islanders, known as “Islenos”, settled in the area that is now San Antonio around 1731.  They made a type of stew to which they added native hot chiles.  Over the decades the dish evolved and came to be known outside of Texas. Word started to spread when a group of women known as “The Chili Queens” began to sell their homemade chili concoctions in open-air, makeshift markets over open flame cookers in the Military Plaza in San Antonio in the late 1800s.  Visitors to the city tasted the chili and carried home tales of the fiery stew.

At Fredericksburg Farms we’ve made chili easy and fool-proof.  Our chili mixes capture the flavor heritage of those generations of chili cooks in one little box.  Just add meat and in no time you’ve got yourself one fine bowl ‘o red.