“Chili is largely a state of mind,” Bill Bridges wrote in his 1981 Great American Chili Book. He was a native of Palestine, Texas (he died in 2003), a photographer in the great days of Time-Life, and he loved good food. His book built on Frank Tolbert’s A Bowl of Red, which appeared in 1966. Chili, I can say, even with my way-outsider perspective based …