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It’s officially fall now, which means – if you’re anything like me – that you’re going to make chili in the near future.

And, if you ARE me, this means you will eat chili probably several times a week. In fact, chili will consume your meals. You’ll look for unusual recipes, perked up with beer, or chocolate, or pumpkin, or apples. You will hop around to every warm-looking establishment on both sides of the Charles, looking for the spiciest, the sweetest, the best vegan and the absolute meatiest.

Why? Because chili is awesome. It’s so awesome that I wrote out a whole paragraph here explaining why, exactly, it’s my favorite meal – before I realized that such a description was completely unnecessary. Chili speaks for itself. Order some the next time you’re out and be amazed that the cheapest dinner on the menu is also the best.

But just because chili is, truly, right up with foliage and apple-picking and Great Pumpkin Ale as the top reasons to be glad it’s fall in New England – well, that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. In fact, a single addition can make all the difference.

I present to you… perfect cornbread from The Edible Perspective.