The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Ballpark Vendors
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Nick Fountain from NPR’s “Planet Money” shares the skills and strategy it takes to sell food at the ballpark. Plus, chef Angela Dimayuga gives us a crash course in Filipino flavors and techniques; we learn about the language of eating outdoors with Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette; and we make Swedish Cardamom Buns. (Originally aired October 14, 2022.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Milkstreet Radio listeners, for our Thanksgiving episode this year, we want to tackle your |
| 0:04.5 | greatest Thanksgiving cooking challenges, savory and sweet. So if you need a new side dish, for example, |
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| 0:29.2 | This is Milk Street Radio from PRX and I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:34.1 | At a baseball game, you always hope for the perfect conditions, warm weather, clear skies, and energetic crowd. |
| 0:40.3 | Anything less than ideal can spell disaster, especially if you're the guy selling beer. |
| 0:46.3 | It seems to be the worst night of the year, most likely. |
| 0:49.3 | The worst night of the year? |
| 0:51.3 | So far. It's cold, it's a Wednesday. There's no giveaway. |
| 0:55.0 | Like last night it was cold, but there was a Mookie Betts' bobblehead giveaway. |
| 0:59.2 | That was Fenway Park vendor Jose McGrass talking to Nick Fountain, co-host of NPR's Planet Money. |
| 1:05.8 | In 2016, Nick went to this game to report on the skills and the strategy it takes to sell food at the ballpark. |
| 1:14.5 | Nick, welcome to Milk Street. |
| 1:16.2 | Thanks, Chris. |
| 1:17.5 | So, of course, I've been to more than a few baseball games in my time, but you know something about baseball I don't, which is what goes on with the people who sell the food in the stands. For Planet Money, you went to Fenway Park to talk to the vendors. But before that, |
| 1:33.1 | you were a vendor yourself at Fenway Park. So tell me what that was like. Yeah, yeah. When I was |
| 1:39.1 | in high school, the career counselor said, hey, would you like to get a job at Fenway Park? And I said, |
| 1:45.0 | this is the best day of my life because a bunch of neighborhood kids where I grew up in Boston |
| 1:49.1 | had had the job. And I knew that it was an awesome job. Pretty lucrative for a teenager. |
| 1:53.4 | And also pretty sweet. You get to hang out in a ball stadium. And it's so much fun interacting |
| 1:58.0 | with all these people and getting to be this sort of caricature |
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