History of Tailgating
by Mary Beth Albright
For everyone who thinks that community-building food experiences are limited to farm-to-table dinners and idyllic family meals with serene-yet-lively discussions of current events, I have one word: tailgating.
In the Venn diagram of life, good-food people and sports fans haven’t historically yielded significant overlap—bring deconstructed kale salad to a Super Bowl party and see what I mean. Good food and sports both require one’s full attention, and a passion divided cannot stand.
However as the good-food movement has gone mainstream over the past decade or so, sports fans have upped their culinary games. It’s apparent at stadiums where for example the Washington Nationals has stalls selling shawarma, pad thai, and cupcakes as well as specialty gluten-free, Kosher (by the Rabbinical Council of Greater Washington), and DC microbrew stands.
And sports fans’ increased good food awareness is apparent in American tailgating, the century-old tradition of gathering to eat, drink, and be a community over sports before the game…and during…and after. Stroll through a stadium or ballpark parking lot these days and you’ll see trucks’ back flaps unhinged and groaning with feasts of more than just chips, tiny grills, and Bud (although I’m not kicking any of those out of my kitchen). Thick-cut heritage meats, exotic dips, and charcuterie boards with artisanal cheese washed down with local beers are more common these days, and not just among the culinary cognoscenti.
History of Tailgating
by Mary Beth Albright
For everyone who thinks that community-building food experiences are limited to farm-to-table dinners and idyllic family meals with serene-yet-lively discussions of current events, I have one word: tailgating.
In the Venn diagram of life, good-food people and sports fans haven’t historically yielded significant overlap—bring deconstructed kale salad to a Super Bowl party and see what I mean. Good food and sports both require one’s full attention, and a passion divided cannot stand.
However as the good-food movement has gone mainstream over the past decade or so, sports fans have upped their culinary games. It’s apparent at stadiums where for example the Washington Nationals has stalls selling shawarma, pad thai, and cupcakes as well as specialty gluten-free, Kosher (by the Rabbinical Council of Greater Washington), and DC microbrew stands.
And sports fans’ increased good food awareness is apparent in American tailgating, the century-old tradition of gathering to eat, drink, and be a community over sports before the game…and during…and after. Stroll through a stadium or ballpark parking lot these days and you’ll see trucks’ back flaps unhinged and groaning with feasts of more than just chips, tiny grills, and Bud (although I’m not kicking any of those out of my kitchen). Thick-cut heritage meats, exotic dips, and charcuterie boards with artisanal cheese washed down with local beers are more common these days, and not just among the culinary cognoscenti.
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