Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we are talking to

Rita Liberti and Maria Veri about their book, Gridiron Gourmet. No, it is not a cookbook. It is a sociological

examination of gender and cooking culture among football tailgators. Fascinating stuff.

Wildly interesting and entertaining. Love the book. And I'm so excited to talk to Rita and Maria for this.

Also, I have some choice words about Kyrie Irving, racism, and the city of Boston.

Got to just stand up and just sit down awards and more.

But first, let's talk to Rita and Maria.

First and foremost, you know, I've already explained the book a little bit to our listeners,

but really in your own words, it's such a fascinating topic.

So just starting with you, Rita, what is this book about in your mind?

Like if you were in an elevator with somebody and they said,

what the heck did you just write about?

What would you say?

It's basically us trying to figure out what the heck is going on in this enormous space, right?

It takes up so much space in terms of like men, gender, food and football.

Like how does this all come together and how do we make sense of it? Because as we can maybe talk about, we were so intrigued by it. Like, what is going on

here? There are all these men are cooking on the black top, you know, and they're so invested in it

in ways that we just were blown away by.

And so we just had to figure out what was going on on that blacktop.

Maria, what do you got?

Yeah, you're right.

It's this, you know, to see, like Rita said, all these men cooking, right?

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