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75 mouthwatering food and beverage recipes make up this ultimate guide for impressing your whole team at the next tailgate! Clear eyes, full bellies, can't lose. This handy guide is everything you've ever needed to turn a tailgate into a tail-great. We'll guide you through all the equipment you need to score big. We'll huddle up for important lessons like packing a cooler and working the grill. We'll hand over the playbook for 75 recipes that are guaranteed to make you the MVP of every tailgate. And we'll even coach from the sidelines with hints, tricks, and tips to make every dish a touchdown. You'll find dips, apps, soups (it gets cold out there!), salads (you need something green on your plate), rib-sticking mains, desserts ranging from no-bake to show-off, and a variety of mixed drinks including beer, cocktails, Bloody Marys, and plenty of rounds of shots in-between. The food is all over the map here, literally. We've got the South (Down South Pimento Cheese), the North (New England Clam Chowder), the Midwest (Wisconsin Booyah), the Southwest (Southwest Chili Verde), and the West Coast (Guaca de Gallo). Tailgating is not about who wins or loses. It's about loading your plate with good eats, spending quality time together, and making memories that last.

Rare is the sports fan who does not enjoy a basketball game, baseball matchup, hockey battle, or football duel in the company of friends and...… food! In The Ultimate Sports Fans'Cookbook, Bowers includes 50 fifty recipes, organized by sporting event, which that can be prepared for the big game. From sweet snacks to mouth-watering meats, spicy side dishes, and much more, this book offers step-by-step instructions on how to hit a home run in the kitchen for the ultimate sports party. Recipes include:• Grilled pizza• Asian Peanut peanut slaw• Zucchini-Parmesan pucks• Basketball sugar cookies• Ranch pretzel party mix• Homemade Cracker Jack• Baked chiles rellenos• And many more!Bowers also includes photos to accompany each dish. The Ultimate Sports Fans'Cookbook is the perfect book for food-loving sports fans of all kinds!

The author of A Man, a Can, a Plan offers a “comprehensive guide to cooking on asphalt” with “tailgate-specific advice that makes this book a champ” (Publishers Weekly). The time-honored tradition of tailgating has evolved far beyond burgers and beers before a big game. When pickup trucks come with built-in grills and coolers, elaborate portable smokers, and gas-powered blenders, the serious tailgater needs the cooking secrets and mouthwatering menus to match. In The Tailgater's Cookbook, David Joachim brings his no-nonsense know-how to the stadium with ninety creative, irresistible recipes to prepare ahead or at the stadium. Recipes include everything from simple appetizers to impressive grilling options to sophisticated desserts. From Brats in Beer, favored at Chicago's Soldier Field, to Swordfish Steaks with Pineapple Relish, enjoyed in Seattle, to David's version of the quintessential New York favorite, Grilled Pizza, the recipes in The Tailgater's Cookbook can be enjoyed at the Daytona 500 or at home on Super Bowl Sunday. Your new game-time favorites include Rum and Cardamom Pork Chops, Beef and Black Bean Chili, Memphis-Style Babyback Ribs, and so much more. Studded with checklists, trivia, parking lot etiquette, menus, and sources, The Tailgater's Cookbook is the go-to guide for any informal outdoor (or even indoor) gathering.

An indispensable tool for your tailgating arsenal: a season's worth of easy-to-make, sure-to-dazzle recipes from Steven Raichlen, the “gladiator of grilling” (Oprah). Curated from Raichlen's bestselling Barbecue! Bible books, with more than 4 million copies sold, this is an appetizer-to-dessert selection tailored for game-day cooking—and competing.After setting out a game plan, including tips on how to build a menu, the importance of Brats, the necessity of aluminum drip pans, food safety, and more, Tailgating! kicks off with Stuffed Grill-Roasted Jalapeño Peppers—spicy, smoking, cheesy, addictive. There's The Great American Hamburger, and four variations. The Bratwurst “Hot Tub,” with four steps for grilling sausage without flare-ups. Ribs two ways—Memphis-style and Kansas City–style. The Inimitable Beer-Can Chicken. Santa Maria Tri-Tip (every grillmaster should get to know this specialty cut of beef). Shrimp, wings, grilled corn, and other finger foods. And two desserts to prepare before the coals die down and the game begins: Chocolate Banana S'Mores and Coconut-Grilled Pineapple.