Game Day Fan Fare

There's no better way to celebrate the hometown team than with family, friends and lots of tasty food. Everyone loves those game-day treats...wings, burgers, chili, cakes and pies. Game-Day Fan Fare, another amazing addition to the best-selling Gooseberry Patch series, will get fans loading up their plates and cheering for more. With over 240 tasty recipes and tons of helpful tips, this cookbook is sure to be a favorite.

Your essential guide to feeding your sports loving friends, now available in paperback. Learn the top tailgating and gameday recipes you’ll need to ensure that when sports return, you’ll be ready to serve food that will be memorable regardless of the final score. Texas Chili. Potato Skins. Sliders. Quesadillas. Learn all you need to know to keep your sports-fan friends coming back to your gameday tailgate, barbecue, or watch party. Turn to great-tasting classics and give your friends exactly what they want when you get together to enjoy the big game.

More than 51 million Americans plan to tailgate this year - and that's just during football season. Consider the legions of fans who tailgate at other professional games, college and high school sports events, or even at home, and you've got one popular American pastime. Debbie Moose's Fan Fare is the only book you'll need to throw a party for friends at home or tailgate at the big game, organized into five chapters: ''Kickoff'' (appetizers and snacks), ''Bowl Games'' (soups, beans, and chili), ''Hot Streak'' (entres), ''Pit Stops'' (salads, sides, breakfast, and brunch), and ''Overtime'' (desserts and drinks). Fan Fare features 100 classic and regional recipes - and the stories and traditions behind them - for every part of the game-day feast, from Jo Ann's Campfire Onion Blossoms (popular at NASCAR races, where tailgating often turns into a days-long camp out) to bratwurst prepared just the way Green Bay Packers fans like it to the Hibachi Seafood Mix essential at any University of Hawaii tailgate, where fans make the most of fresh, locally caught fish. Moose has also included all the important tips for an impromptu party at home or a carefully planned trip to the big game, with pointers on food transport and safety, outdoor cooking techniques, suggested menus, and a calendar of sporting events, so there's a great excuse for a tailgate party every month of the year.

On football weekends in the United States, thousands of fans gather in the parking lots outside of stadiums, where they park their trucks, let down the gates, and begin a pregame ritual of drinking and grilling. Tailgating, which began in the early 1900s as a quaint picnic lunch outside of the stadium, has evolved into a massive public social event with complex menus, extravagant creative fare, and state-of-art grilling equipment. Unlike traditional notions of the home kitchen, the blacktop is a highly masculine culinary environment in which men and the food they cook are often the star attractions. Gridiron Gourmet examines tailgating as shown in television, film, advertising, and cookbooks, and takes a close look at the experiences of those tailgaters who are as serious about their brisket as they are about cheering on their favorite team, demonstrating how and why the gendered performances on the football field are often matched by the intensity of the masculine displays in front of grills, smokers, and deep fryers.

Maybe it's the fresh air or the smoky aroma...but we think just about everything tastes better when it's cooked over a fire! For Grilling and Campfire Cooking we've gathered plenty of easy recipes to enjoy year 'round. Your family will love Tangy Peach-Glazed Chicken, BBQ Bacon Cheeseburgers, Firecracker Shrimp and Barbecue Spareribs. Round out the menu with Campfire Potatoes and Tomato & Sweet Corn Salad. Mustard & Herb Strip Steak is sure to convince the gang that you're a real grill-master and Kicked-Up Campfire Beans and Pan-Fried Corn Fritters will be hits at your next picnic. For dessert, try Grilled Pineapple Sundaes...yum! Since it can't always be sunny weather, we have a few tricks to get that delicious cookout flavor even on rainy days. Slow-Cooked Kalua Pork and Broiled Honey Chicken are perfect for indoor and RV & camper cooking too. We've included plenty of helpful tips too. So...let's cook out tonight! Hardcover, 224 pages. (9-1/4" x 6-1/2")

A de facto American national holiday and phenomenon, the Super Bowl claims a spot as one of the most significant sporting events in the world and the most widely celebrated, feasted and feasting event of the year— with $14+ billion at stake, commercials costing $7 million for a 30-second spot, record-setting broadcast ratings, and 113+ million viewers. More avocados (105 million pounds) are consumed, and more beer is drunk (325 million gallons) on the single day of Superbowl Sunday. But there is much more at play than partying at our annual sports extravaganza, as this scholarly researched yet readable volume demonstrates: Here you will read a historical perspective that includes discussions of the meta-event’s economics (stakeholders, host cities, advertising, gambling, and media), fandom, ratings, halftime entertainment, the roles of mythic spectacle and religion, football’s sexist, militaristic language, gender issues like cheerleaders and sex trafficking, the Puppy Bowl, medical concerns like concussions and violence, tailgating and foodie ideas—all along with tidbits about your favorite team(s) and player(s). Touchdown!

Exactly one hundred years before the Brooklyn Dodgers won the 1955 World Series, the Brooklyn Excelsiors were playing on the same grounds where the Dodgers would begin their long history. Brooklyn and its teams played a prominent role in the early history of the game and reigned as champions of baseball's first organized league through most of the 1860s. The early years of organized baseball (1855-1884) in Brooklyn when it was the center of the baseball universe is the focus of this book. In addition to discussing the early clubs and players, this work examines the transformation of baseball from a recreational pursuit of gentlemen's clubs to a professional spectator sport. It also reveals much about the social norms, gender and race relations, and the role of the media in the early game and covers the many firsts that are attributed to early Brooklyn teams, such as having the first paid player, tragic hero and curveball pitcher, and being the first team to take road trips, play in enclosed ball parks and charge admission. Notably, they were heralded by the most famed sports journalist of the nineteenth century.