Tailgate Parties Turn Pro
/Oh,
. You make the act of tailgating an art. You are the maraschino cherry cream pie to our grossly exorbitant dinner parties. Without you, we would be living off raw hot dogs, uncooked hamburgers, pink chicken patties, droopy shish kebabs, and underserved
.
Yes, we could be prepping for the
show with a DIY
fashioned out of a
and sticks for mallow-roasting. But there's something so striking about going pro with equipment such as that featured at left; which will make all the lot kids green with envy, and all the yuppies blush with embarrassment. Behold Outdora.com's latest outdoing of itself: the perfect tailgating
.
Okay—tailgating admittedly doesn't have all that much to do with
; unless you begin to consider future opportunities to tailgate at one of our many
, and the fact that anyone from the farm would be happy to join you on any number of
soon-to-materialize concert tours
.
But this also brings up other ideas of no-nonsense grilling; such as the ever-growing trend of outdoor kitchen areas, the increasingly acceptable idea of making dinner out-of-doors, and that nagging sensation you have of improving on your hubby or leading lady's idea of "campfires".
From hobos in train yards to campground pastimes to a major surge in barbecuing in 1950s America, today's outdoor cookers have taste. And expectations. And a refusal to settle for mish mashed concepts of shoddy grilling tendencies. Thankfully, everyone from retched box stores and glamorous boutiques have answered the call. You can go as basic or complicated as you please with your grilling. Utter freedom!
Us Better Farmers envision the reappropriation of an indoor, wood-burning cookstove as an outdoor grilling-machine-under-gazebo setup (complete with sinkwater gleaned from rainwater collection bins) by Summer 2011. It's ambitious; but with so many inspiring ideas to inspect and dream about (tailgating ideas included) we don't see any roadblocks up ahead. It's time we took this "timeless grilling accessory" to new heights—beyond its role as a centerpiece to outdoor entertainment and into a realm where this cooking style speaks for itself.
