Cin Chili turned up the Heat at the Austin Hot Sauce Festival
The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, which began in 1990, has become the world's largest, drawing as many as 15,000 spectators and more than 350 entries every year. This year the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival took place on Sunday, August 29th.
 Cin Chili's Cindy Reed Wilkins |
 Austin Hot Sauce Festival |
(EMAILWIRE.COM, September 03, 2010) Austin, TX - Cindy Reed Wilkins and Cin Chili made their annual appearance at this year's 20th Annual Austin Hot Sauce Festival. Billed as Austin's official end-of-summer celebration, the event took place on Sunday August 29th at Waterloo Park in Austin, Texas. Cin Chili was not like any other of the other tasting booths. They wanted tasters to experience their chili flavor, unbiased and unaffected by the flavor of a salty chip, so they sampled their sauces on mini spoons, straight-up, like true Texans. Cin Chili continues to impress the judges with their award-winning recipes.
At the center of the festival is the hot sauce, with three levels of competition: individuals (homemade), restaurants, and commercial bottlers. Those three levels are then broken down into 10 categories.
Homemade hot sauces are red, green, or special variety. Restaurant hot sauces are red, green, or special variety. Commercial hot sauces are red, green, special variety, or pepper sauce.
Last year's Hot Sauce Festival raised more than $14,000 and over 29,000 pounds of food for Central Texans in need. We challenge attendees to help us raise even more food and funds this year to meet the growing need for food assistance in our community! This one-of-a-kind event has become one of Central Texas' biggest and best known parties. This year's Hot Sauce Festival promises to be even bigger and hotter than ever before.
More than one hundred gallons of hot sauce are consumed at the event every year. Area restaurants show off their hot and spicy foods at booths and vendors from across the Southwest set up shop to sell hot and spicy cookbooks, fresh peppers, and chili pepper memorabilia.
Cin Chili
So delicious, it's Cin-ful! You can enjoy the award-winning chili at home, just like the one that was featured on the Food Network Channel's “Throwdown with Bobby Flay”.
