{"id":1129,"date":"2008-11-22T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T23:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2008-11-22T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T23:23:28","slug":"beating-chilly-weather-with-a-chili-cook-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2008\/11\/22\/beating-chilly-weather-with-a-chili-cook-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating chilly weather with a chili cook-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab<\/p>\n

Nothing brings grad students together quite like the promise of free food and friendly competition.\u00a0 The MLML community turned out in fine form on Friday for the first ever MLML Chili Cook-off, the brain-child of Ichthyology student Shaara Ainsley<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0 Hungry students, faculty, and staff alike poured out of the woodwork in a celebration of sampling that had nothing to do with statistics or experimental design.<\/p>\n

\"Jahnava<\/a>
Jahnava Duryea spoons out a sample while Sonya Sankaran ticks off her ballot <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rosemary<\/a>
Rosemary Romero, best vegetarian chili, and Dr. Shannon Bros-Seemann, best meat chili, model their prizes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nearly a dozen contestants entered their hearty concoctions, ranging from super-meaty to vegan.\u00a0 The crowd of appreciative “judges” ranked the chilies based on the judging criteria of the Chili Appreciation Society International: aroma, red color, consistency, taste, and aftertaste.\u00a0 Once the ballots were cast and tallied, it appeared that the color-blind community eschewed tradition to embrace an outsider: a delicious white chili submitted by Dr. Shannon Bros-Seemann emerged victorious, despite the fact that it didn’t look like the other chilis in the cookbooks, and its unconvential composition, which included chicken.<\/p>\n

\"Chilipepper<\/a>
Chilipepper rockfish, photo by Milton Love (fishbase.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\n

The only thing that could have made the evening even better (and marine) would have been a cameo by the chilipepper rockfish, Sebastes goodei<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Well, I guess there’s always next year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Erin Loury, Ichthyology Lab Nothing brings grad students together quite like the promise of free food and friendly competition.\u00a0 The MLML community turned out in fine form on Friday for the first ever MLML Chili Cook-off, the brain-child of Ichthyology student Shaara Ainsley. \u00a0\u00a0 Hungry students, faculty, and staff alike poured out of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}