After winning a chili cook-off at his home in northeast Iowa, David Esslemont illustrated his recipe in thirty-nine woodcuts and bound them into this book. He toasts chiles, makes stock, grinds beef, adds garlic & tomato paste… The result is shown on the cover (first picture, below). See all the woodcuts here and Esslemont’s other books (many of them about food, with names like “Taxi Driver Curry” and “Pizza”) here.
