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.

To see America¿s passion for sports, you need look no further than the parking lot. Tailgating is an American pastime all its own: campers & grills, tents & furniture, food & drink, paraphernalia & memorabilia, satellite TV & music, & miniature cities that pop up a half-day before kickoff. This handbook is the ultimate how-to for the tailgater who wants to do it all, have it all, & host the best party. Contents: Ultimate Tailgating; History of Tailgating; Tailgating Gear; Dressing the Part; Tailgating Setups; Themes for Your Tailgate; Racing; Pools & Games; The Commissioner of Tailgating; Good Sports -- Tailgating Etiquette; Planning Your Tailgate; Tailgating Cookbook: Food & Drinks; Tailgater¿s Food Safety; & Resources & Venue Guide. Illustrations.

The only thing that compares with America's obsession with sports is our passion for eating. No wonder tailgating is a national pastime. Whether it's football, baseball, NASCAR, or the kid's soccer gameone thing is certain: have parking lot, will cook. Hungry spectators need look no further than The Tailgating Cookbook for sizzling recipes guaranteed to please. Packed with burgers and brats, chili and stew, tasty kabobs, ideal side dishes, desserts, and drinks to go with them, anyone can turn their simple hot-dog-and-beer party into a gastronomical glutton-fest of tasty delights. With expert tips on equipment, prep-ahead, timing, food storage, tailgating etiquette (try not to play Ozzy's Crazy Train too loud), and scoring the perfect spot to hunker down, this part cookbook/part handbook will get the party started, whether it's just two guys chomping hoagies or a multigenerational group of fans with a setup worthy of a professional kitchen. Two, Four, Six, Eight, We Love to Tailgate!

Auto racing has some of the most devoted tailgaters on the planet. The Ultimate Tailgater's Racing Guide is for these fans and includes the entire tailgating experience―from camping to cooking, clothing to games. This book is tailored to tailgating at the track and features equipment and customs you just don't find at a football stadium. Plus, The Untimate Tailgeter's Racing Guide has track guides for every NASCAR track in America, as well as tracks that host IRL, IHRA, NHRA, Champ Cars, trucks, and more―nearly 300 tracks in all! "Racing fans and tailgaters are a big part of what makes racing America's fastest growing sport. The Ultimate Tailgater's Racing Guide captures it all perfectly and has everything fans need to tailgate anywhere―from the regional drag strips to the big NASCAR tracks. Every fan should have a copy." ―Terry McMillen, Funny Car Driver

Bound-for-glory recipes to please crowds, whether tailgating at the game or partying in your TV room.

Tailgating is defined, by the American Tailgater Website thusly: "To participate in a picnic that is served from the tailgate of a vehicle, as before a sports event." The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Tailgating will be the ultimate and ONLY book you'll need to planning and executing and attending a tailgate party. The author will offer excellent advice on the best kinds of barbeque equipment, such as gas grills versus charcoal grills, coolers, and where to go to purchase the best tailgating accessories. He also offers up cooking tips, deciding what best to cook, and discusses the special equipment for battling the elements (shades, tarps, space heaters). More importantly, the book will also feature invaluable tips on perhaps the most important element of tailgating: drinking. We'll show you how to mooch beer from other peoples' kegs (and keeping fellow moochers away from yours), how best to tap a keg, how to keep a keg from going flat, and how to hoist a keg without ruining your back. Additionally, the book will feature a crucial section on hangover prevention and cures, with science backed by a prominent expert on the study of hangovers, Dr. Jeffrey Weise, of Tulane University. All of this, plus much, much more, will be cram-packed into 192 fun-filled and informative book pages.

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!