RECIPES: Chili recipes are as versatile and varied as the places where they are made

I am a firm believer that one can never have too many cornbread recipes. Even if you make the same one over and over again. The same goes for chili.

I'm going to let you in on a chili-making secret.

But first, a quick etymology lesson:

"Chile" means pepper in Spanish, so it is redundant to call them chile (or chili) peppers.

Whether you spell it chile, as we do, or chili or even chilli, is a matter of regional preference.

Chilli is commonly used in British English, while here in the Americas you'll often see it spelled with just one l and either an e or an i. Both are correct. The i spelling is considered standard American English, while the e spelling is most common in the Southwest and regions with large Spanish-speaking populations.

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