I Got Your Tailgate Party Right Here!

Anyone seriously involved in tailgating or thinking about trying to organize a party for the first time should have this book. The instructions for setting up your tailgate party will guide you through the required equipment, procedures and protocol and there are enough recipes to hold you through many seasons of football.

Before reading "I Got Your Tailgate Party Right Here!", it's natural to expect a collection of hamburger, ribs, and baked beans from a book on tailgating. However, after reading this cookbook, you'll find a new respect for the culinary genius of blacktop chefs and party planners. Team Blacktop, who you can learn more about on their website YourTailgateParty.com, toured the parking lots of every NFC team in the league for a season in order to discover the best tailgaters and recipes in the country. The result, after this road warrior season, is a book filled with the heart and soul of football fans from every region in the country.

Along with discovering the local cuisines, you learn about the different tailgating styles of fans in each region. You'll have a collection of recipes that won championship taste-offs in each team's parking lot. And these recipes go far beyond hamburgers, with venison and raccoon legs among the winners. And since tailgating begins hours before the game starts, there are recipes for breakfast and snacks too. Some recipes can be prepared ahead and transported, others are designed for cooking right there on the blacktop. All of them give instructions for advance preparation and required equipment. But rather than the explicit detailed steps typical of most cookbooks these days, you'll find the instructions are more in the style of one friend telling another how to prepare his special dish.