where does chili (the food) originate from?

Answer 1

texas

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Chili con carne, often known simply as chili, is a spicy stew-like dish. The essential ingredients are chili peppers and meat. Variations, either geographic or by personal preference may include tomatoes, onions, beans, and other ingredients. The name "chili con carne" is a slight corruption of the Spanish chile con carne, which means "chile (peppers) with meat". Chili con carne is the official dish of the U.S. state of Texas.
Many argue that chile was invented in Mexico during the 1840s, as a replacement for pemmican;(Pemmican is a concentrated food consisting of dried pulverized beef, dried berries, and rendered fat) others place its origin in Tijuana, Baja California, or Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

The Mexican origin theory holds that it was created as a complimentary dish served at cantinas, especially to please outsiders, who wanted something spicy and "Mexican" to eat, but also free or cheap. It was made with leftovers from the meals prepared in the cantina and served for free to drinking customers.

The chilies originated in the Americas and were in wide use in pre-Columbian Mexican culture. Any stew made using significant amounts of chilies might be seen as a forerunner of all modern chili recipes.

While evidence of corn in pre-Columbian proto-chili stews remains to be discovered, its useage can be inferred. While bulk grain fillers are not seen as legitimate ingredients in some recipes, masa, a meal made from either corn flour (masa harina) or corn which has been treated with lime to make hominy (Masa nixtamalera), is often used as a thickener and flavoring.

The Americanized recipe consisted of dried beef, suet, dried chile peppers (usually chilepiquenes), and salt, which were pounded together and left to dry into bricks, which could then be boiled in pots on the trail. An alternative, and more widely-accepted theory, holds that chile con carne was born in Ensenada, Mexico in the 1880s as a way of stretching available meat in the kitchens of poor Tejanos[citation needed]. However, this theory does not take in account Ensenada and Texas are very far from each other.

"San Antonio Chile Stand" was in operation at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which helped spread a taste for chile to other parts of the country. San Antonio was a significant tourist destination and helped Texas-style chile con carne spread throughout the South and West.

Answer 4

in Spanish chili con carne means chilies with meat, so I would think it started with meat and chilies in Mexico or Spain but we americanized the dish adding other ingredients and shortened the name

Answer 5

its known to be popular in the southwest, as far as it's origin i assume it was on the trail as a 1-pot meal . and the ingredients were probably canned and / or dried such as the meat ( jerky ) onions and chilEs were probably introduced by the indian nations along the way ! my opinion only -no hard facts ?

Answer 6

Well, definitely not from Mexico.
The chili (called chile here and is the spice), does though.

Answer 7

Turkey

Answer 8

I aways liked to believe its from the synonymous country

Answer 9

chili