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What Is Cincinnati Chili?
For the uninitiated, Cincinnati chili is a somewhat watery, paste-like concoction that, in its most minimal form, is served over spaghetti and topped with cheese to form a three-way. (A 4-way is toped with onions & a 5-way is all the above plus Kidney Beans.) Its unusual taste comes from an odd mix of spices, many of which the Tex-Mexicans never had the ingenuity to try. These include vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, chili powder, bay leaves, cinamon, allspice, cayenne peppers and cocoa. Yep, cocoa.
One word of warning: Cincinnati chili is not exactly health food. A 270-calorie serving of the packaged version of Skyline chili derives 130 calories from fat, mostly from finely gound hamburger. You can get rid of some fat if you use a slatted spoon to strain off the grease. The spaghetti may help some too. But the cheese wipes out any gains there. Occasionally people come forward with heart-healthy vegetarian Cincinnati chili recipes. One from Baltimore dietitian Frances Price, which was published in the Enquirer a couple of years ago, subsitutes chopped carrots, celery and bulgur wheat for the ground beef. Nice try, but we'll hold out for the Healthy Choice version.
The above Artical is found in:

The Insiders' Guide to Greater Cincinnati
by Jack Neff and Skip Tate
Copyright @ 1995 by
Lexington Herald-Leader
ISBN 0-912367-78-4
page 121
Mary Anna DuSablon is the author of Cincinnati Recipe Treasury.
Her recipe for Cincinnati chili is the way it was meant to be.
(See Index below for her recipe)
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