Think of baseball and it’s hard not imagine the incredible ballpark food. Fans at this year’s London Series can expect to be served a treat at London Stadium when the New York Mets take on the Philadelphia Phillies on June 8-9. While stars like Bryce Harper, Trea Turner, Pete Alonso...
Baseball develops some of its best elements in the Minor Leagues, from the talent of players, to ballpark promotions to rule changes. That also extends to food. Of course, you can get all your favorites -- Cracker Jacks, hot dogs, cotton candy, beer, cola and all the rest -- at...
When the London Series took place last month, the Cubs and Cardinals weren't the only things brought over from the United States for fans -- there was the food, too. Among the bevy of food options there was a downright smorgasbord of American ballpark-style foodstuffs including nachos, pizzas, and giant...
Forget the pies and the puddings: When the Cubs and Cardinals head to England for the London Series next week, there will be a full baseball food takeover, too. And the options won't just be restricted to London Stadium, home of West Ham United and host for the Cubs and...
When it comes to baseball and sports in general, the debates among fans are endless. But there is no debate when it comes to fans’ love for ballpark food. Eating at a baseball game is an essential part of the gameday experience. And at Great American Ball Park, that experience...
It didn't even start as a contest. It all began because Dmitri Young simply wanted some food. "It wasn't even a dare," Young told me in a recent call. "I was just hungry." But after eating 11 cheesesteaks over a three-game series in Philadelphia some time in the early 2000s,...
They pulled back the curtain, allowing the mouth-watering odors to come through unobstructed. There, just a few feet beyond us, was a spread unlike one we had ever seen. Dishes stacked upon dishes, glowing under orange-and-golden lights, all plated in little snack trays and lovingly nestled inside Mets-themed tissue paper....
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Through risotto, Mark Canha met the world. The Mets’ new right fielder was only 6 or 7 when it happened, when he first pressed creamy rice to his tongue and experienced revelation. Canha grew up in the Bay Area with a dad who traveled internationally...
The dream came to him from a nightmare -- at least, the kind of nightmare that every baseball fanatic has at least once in their life. Barry Levenson -- who originally hails from Worcester, Mass., but was the assistant attorney general at the Wisconsin Department of Justice -- had just...
We'd only just begun our conversation when Wade Boggs reveals the scoop of scoops: The man affectionately known as "Chicken Man," whose fame for eating chicken before every game may rival what he accomplished during his Hall of Fame career, did it all because he wanted to write a chicken...
Are you a big "Field of Dreams" fan, but couldn't make it out to Iowa for Thursday's big game between the Yankees and White Sox? Do you regularly dress like a baseball ghost emerging from a corn field, but you never have the appropriate meal to pair with the outfit?...
Food should be fun. That's the ethos that Will Hughes, the young internet sensation better known on Instagram as "What Willy Cook," seems to live by. "'What am I gonna cook?'" Hughes, who has a devilish smile permanently attached to his lips, asked himself. "There's only a billion things that...
There's still a long way to go in the baseball season and every team -- no matter how quickly they got out of the gate or how poorly they started the year -- has at least the mathematic possibility of winning the World Series. But when it comes to which...
Ever since Chris Von der Ahe, the owner of the St. Louis Browns of the American Association (who, confusingly enough, became the Cardinals of today) started selling hot dogs at the ballpark in the 1880s, stuffing your face has been just as big a part of going to the game...
There are two things we know to be true about Major League ballplayers. First: Their bodies are their temples, well-oiled machines, the product of years of work in back fields and batting cages and weight rooms -- all with the goal of leaping tall buildings in a single bound and...
Minor League Baseball is a constant spectacle, a never-ending array of chihuahuas and flying squirrels and Salute to Indoor Plumbing Night and anthropomorphic tacos. So when the league announced the Copa de la Diversión -- Spanish for "Fun Cup", in which teams across the country rebrand themselves, nicknames, logos and
We all have different tastes and preferences, and, in general, these are to be appreciated and celebrated. Some people think cilantro is a great addition to just about any food, while others think it tastes like soap. Post Malone is all over the top-40 charts and that's fine, I guess.
Tacos are delicious, and now you -- yes, you -- can have one for free. Yes, totally free, all thanks to the Washington Nationals' Trea Turner, who swiped second base a few pitches into Game 1 of the World Series against the Astros on Tuesday night. After reaching on an
On Tuesday night, the Nationals will play in a World Series game for the first time in franchise history when they visit Houston to face the Astros. So, it's no surprise that Washington, D.C., is pumped up to see what their team can do. What that looks like on the
Over the summer, a "pop-up" food stand materialized at an auto shop literally five minutes from my apartment, specializing in some outrageously delicious fried chicken -- Nashville style, honey BBQ, and so on, available as tacos, on Texas toast or just as plain tenders. It's a wonderful development in my
