The aroma of many different varieties of chili greeted visitors to the annual ChiliFest and Cook Off in Okotoks Saturday.

Elizabeth Street was filled with arts and crafts vendors, musical performances and about 11 different recipes of chili for visitors to sample.

Charlotte Robinson, 13, figured she was able to sample most of the chili offerings yesterday.

"I really like the smoky ones," she explained. "The sweeter ones were okay and then some of them were just kind of bland, but there were a lot of them that were really good."

A panel of judges made their way through all of the different recipes and decided the entry from Dr. Carla Cordick and her team at IDental was the winner.

Cordick says the winning formula is actually a secret recipe of her mom's. She says they went through a lot of chili yesterday and even had some repeat visitors.

"We made about 50 litres of it and we're down to the last bit," she said yesterday.

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