"Chili is the state dish of Texas, and fall marks the beginning of chili season," Ms. Fain said.
Just across the border in Texas, restaurants advertise their state dish as "chili". Bosland has heard quite a few arguments against the New Mexico way of spelling chile.
The danger is that Brazil turns into a micromanaged society in which the state dishes out favours to its clients and allies.A glance at Venezuela ought to dissuade Ms Rousseff from pursuing such a course.
It has conflated the interests of party and state, dishing out contracts for public works as rewards for loyalty hence the bitter jest that the government is in hock to "tenderpreneurs".
She has made few efforts to tackle Brazil's structural problems: its poor infrastructure, high costs, punitive tax system, mountains of red tape and a rigid labour code copied from Mussolini.Instead, she has revived Brazil's corporate state, dishing out favours to insiders, such as tax breaks and subsidised loans from bloated state banks.
Vitiello says Blue State dishes pull heavily from the east and west coasts and include healthy, earthy, and fresh organic fare while the Red States are represented by Southern spicy cuisine.
In addition to reducing spending, the budget would transform SNAP from an open-ended federal commitment to deliver nutrition assistance to everyone who qualifies into a "block grant" -- a fixed sum of money for states to dish out according to a set of federal criteria.
Between the two, in the middle states, catchall dishes were the staple.
Tuna tortilla pizza was unusual - sushi-rare tuna, onions, chives and sesame seeds on a baked tortilla -- and tasty, though the menu should have stated the dish was served cold.
While Wengshoel stated the dish he served up tasted similar to "wild sheep," other accounts of the taste of human flesh differ.
