Matthew D wrote:I woke up this morning thinking about how awesome it would be if a local restaurant held a multiple-course dinner with baseball as the takeoff point.
Start with the standards - peanuts, brats, pretzels, cracker jacks - and see what one could come up with.
I know there have been challenges on cooking shows that do the "fancy up traditional baseball food" move. Something along those lines, without making it too far removed from baseball.
Not sure where the veggies would come in.
Beer would need to be included with every course, obviously.
Matt, I like where your head is at - Baseball! The season starts for my Redsox today at 1:05 in Detroit. I will be watching at my computer as I pretend to work. I'm not sure baseball and multiple course dinners make good bed fellows.
As you may have heard, several Redsox pitchers got the foodie bug last year and things went south in a hurry. Fried chicken and beer was their preference by all accounts. I've never associated fried chicken with baseball myself. Give me a brat or any over-large sausage will do and cover it with onions or kraut and mustard and I'm happy. Of course beer goes without saying.
I've watched big league games in Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. At all of them, I've found it difficult to find anything approaching what I consider good beer. So, I shrug and drink the best I can find right? I walked what seemed like the whole stadium at Cinci last year trying to find some local beer. I finally did but it wasn't easy and they only had one kind. Of course it was exorbitantly expensive but what the hell! What are you going to do? Save a dollar and drink lousy beer?
Anyway, let me know if you come up with something with a baseball theme. I'd be interested. I would think ATG might do a baseball dinner during a game or something. Maybe we could reserve a section and have the food catered by ATG. The bats park is a glorious environment and we are lucky to have it. Having a local brewer with serious foodie chops at the park is gravy. Baseball is the ultimate spectating/eating sport IMO. Oh btw -who is your team? Cheers!
