Chili cook-offs champion this time of year, evidence that one and all seem to have chili recipes. Sometimes that ladle gets stuck in a beanie rut. Chili for the Soul enlightens the spoon and its stirrer with ideas like pulled pork and butternut squash chili; braised short rib chili with bacon; pumpkin chili with avocado cream; and vegetarian sweet potato and black bean. Butternut squash chili and spaghetti chili blur the soup-chili border while mango-black bean-chipotle-Coke chili wins the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink award.
