How Baseball Stadiums Became Culinary Destinations (With Joe House and Sonia Chopra)

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Eater's resident baseball expert, Sonia Chopra, drops in to talk about her 2018/19 stadium food guide. Sonia and Dan talk to the executive chef of Citi Field, Patrick Schaeffer, about how he runs food at his stadium. John Karangis, chef of Union Square Hospitality Group's events and stadium program, talks about putting Shake Shack's relationship with baseball parks. And of course, Joe House, of The House of Carbs pod, calls in to tell us how he approaches eating at ball games. Hosted by: Amanda Kludt and Daniel Geneen. Sign up for Amanda Kludt’s newsletter here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Eater Upsell part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:07.0	This is Amanda Cloot, the editor-in-chief of Eater.
0:09.5	I am joined as always by my co-host Daniel Janine.
0:12.1	Hi Dan.
0:13.0	Hey Amanda, let's get into it.
0:15.0	We're talking baseball today.
0:17.0	It is late April, which means baseball.
0:20.0	The baseball season is well underway,
0:22.0	as you all probably know it is the best
0:25.1	sport to watch while eating food it is no longer peanuts and Cracker Jacks no
0:28.9	although you can still get those things you can you can yeah to off the show, we brought in our director of
0:34.9	editorial strategy, Sonia Chopra, to talk about baseball dining.
0:39.3	Baseball dining, the best thing about baseball and about dining.
0:43.0	She is our foremost expert on baseball dining.
0:46.3	She writes about it every single year.
0:47.7	She leads our efforts to cover our baseball stadium dining guides across America and she has a piece up on eater right now talking about what is new in baseball dining.
0:58.8	So Sonia...
1:00.4	Without further ado, what's new?
1:02.1	What's new is that local is back. We have seen this local, local, we are all about local this year. It is 2018 and all the baseball stadiums care about bringing in local beer options local food local restaurants
1:13.9	many of them have gardens on the top of their stadiums like in Fenway Park
1:18.1	in Boston. Oh even like local like let's grow stuff here. Yeah let's put microbasel on top of our nachos. like
1:25.0	let's put micro basil on top of our nachos. Oh my God, are they like keeping bees?
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