Subj : Today in History - 1985
To   : All
From : Dave Drum
Date : Fri Sep 22 2023 04:01:00

22 September 1985 - MUSICIANS PERFORM TO HELP FAMILY FARMERS: Inspired
by Live Aid, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young organize
Farm Aid, a concert in Champaign, IL to benefit American family farmers.
Other performers include Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Johnny Cash, and Lou
Reed.

For more than three decades, one music event has been singularly focused
on a piece of American life that holds at least part of the answer to
this crisis - family farming. For that reason, Willie Nelson's Farm Aid
may well be the nation's most important music festival right now.

"Climate change is the most important issue we face today," says Dave
Matthews, who is a member of the board - along with Nelson, John
Mellencamp, Neil Young, and Margo Price - of Farm Aid, which Nelson
launched in 1985, to help keep family farmers on their land. Since it
began, through its annual benefit concerts, Farm Aid has raised more
than $64 million to support programs that help family farmers.

Now in its 38th year, Farm Aid takes place Sept 23 at Ruoff Music Center
in Noblesville, Indiana-Mellencamp's home state - with the
organization's guiding artists joined by the Grateful Dead's Bobby Weir
& the Wolf Bros. featuring the Wolfpack, Lukas Nelson, Nathaniel
Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Allison Russell, The String Cheese Incident
and Particle Kid. Also on the bill: Clayton Anderson, The Black Opry
featuring Lori Rayne, Tylar Bryant and Kyshona, the Jim Irsay Band,
featuring Ann Wilson of Heart, Native Pride Productions and the Wisdom
Indian Dancers.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Shotgun Willie Chilli
 Categories: Chilli, Stews, Beef, Chilies
      Yield: 12 Servings
 
      6 lb Prime Beef; diced or coarse
           - ground
      4 md Onions; fine diced
     15 oz Can tomato Sauce
      6 lg New Mexico dried chile pods
      6 lg Pasilla dried chile pods
      4 c  Beef broth
      2 tb Vinegar
      1 ts Tabasco
     16 tb Gebhardt Chilli Powder
      2 tb Ground cumin
      1 ts Cayenne pepper
      1 tb MSG
    1/2 ts Sugar
     14 cl Garlic; crushed
      1 c  Water
  1 1/2 tb Oregano leaves
      2 tb (to 3 tb) Wesson Oil
           Salt & black pepper
 
  Remove stems and seeds from pepper pods and boil chile
  peppers in water for approximately one hour until pulp
  separates from skin. Scrape pulp from skin, mash into a
  paste. Use 1 1/2 cups of this paste in recipe.
  
  In the 1 cup of water, bring the 1 1/2 tablespoons oregano
  leaves to boil, steep like tea. Strain, add the strained
  liquid to chilli mixture.
  
  Brown beef, a small batch at a time in hot oil adding onions
  and black pepper to each batch. Remove meat to chili pot as
  it browns. Add remaining ingredients, blend well. Cover and
  simmer 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
  
  1985 ICS World Championship recipe
  
  FROM: Carol Hancock, winner 1985
  
  From: http://www.chilicookoff.com/Winner/wc_1985
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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.... The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude.
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