With chili being a go-to comfort food, everyone has their own recipe — most of the time with a secret ingredient or special twist to making it.
At the end of January, Carver Community Center in Anniston hosted a chili cook-off. Tana Bryant, the city of Anniston’s senior code enforcement officer, scooped up a first-place win with her version of the dish: Her famous white chicken chili.
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