Chili Crisp Corn Bread

Corn bread is a staple in American barbecue culture. As a Chinese immigrant kid in the 1990s, I rarely got to eat American food. In fact, I loved school lunches, chalupas, dry chicken sandwiches, boring bologna sandwiches, mediocre pizzas, and powder-made mashed potatoes. I even loved those frozen TV dinners with a cartoon character on the front! But corn bread made me a little confused: bread that tastes like cake, made from a vegetable?! Here’s my grown-up version of corn bread, made a li