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Jay & Karen DiEugenio
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Jay DiEugenio combined his love of football and a flair for outdoor cooking to create a Tailgating Tour some say is every fan's dream! For the past two seasons, Jay has been traveling with his family in a motorhome to tailgate at every stadium in the NFL. Along the way, he and his wife Karen are collecting recipes from the best "blacktop chefs" across the country for their cookbooks entitled, I Got Your Tailgate Party Right Here! To entice the tailgaters to hand over their sometimes heavily-guarded recipes, they teamed up with Camp Chef to hold a Tailgating Taste-off before each game. Cooks are invited to submit a sample of their food to compete for the title of Blacktop's Best and to take home great prizes from Camp Chef including a grill every week! The winning recipes are also featured in the cookbooks, as well as on the website YourTailgateParty.com.
Jay has picked up tips and tricks from grillmasters coast-to-coast, and learned to make regional specialties like the Midwest's BBQ ribs, Northwest's cedar plank salmon, Southern-style pulled pork, Western chili and even Gulf Coast gumbo. He's discovered that in the tailgating lot, like most places, food is the heart of the party. And tailgaters often have huge crowds show up for the pre-game festivities with even bigger appetites. Thankfully, he travels with a trailer full of outdoor cooking equipment from Camp Chef that has never let him down. Whether it's six Thanksgiving Day turkeys in Dallas, or a pile of cinnamon pancakes in Atlanta, Jay can rely on his gear to get the job done.
Besides cooking before the games, he uses his grills, griddles, skillets, and Dutch ovens nearly every day during his 5 months on the road to prepare meals for his family at campgrounds along the way. He just sets up his grill outside the RV, puts out the awning and opens up the hatch with the entertainment center inside. It truly is the kitchen of his dreams. Campers wander by to chat, or to sneak a peak at what he has on the grill. And they're always full of questions about his cool cooking "toys".
During his Tailgating Tours Jay has been featured on television and radio programs across the country including Fox News with Jane Skinner, ESPN Sports Radio, and The Mark and Brian Radio Program. He loves to introduce himself as a "Professional Tailgater."
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Karen DiEugenio has spent the past two football seasons covering the "tailgating beat" for YourTailgateParty.com. In more than eight months on the road, she has taken more than 10,000 photos of tailgate parties across the country which she posts, along with weekly articles and updates from the Tour, on the website. Her first book, I Got Your Tailgate Party Right Here! The Best of the NFL: NFC Edition was published in June 2006, and the AFC edition is due out Spring 2007.
Karen's favorite part of any tailgate is running into Camp Chef fans in the lot. She always makes a point of asking them how they like their Camp Chef grills and accessories, and every time they are happy to tell her how much they use and abuse their equipment week after week, all season long. She also loves introducing them to new products they haven't tried. The Turkey Cannons and Keg Roasters always get a raised eye.
And though Jay does most of the cooking during the Tour, Karen has become a passionate cast iron convert. She's obsessive about care of her collection, and lives by the credo "anything tastes better in cast iron." Her pot of Navy Bean Soup she made at a Navy-vs-Notre Dame tailgate nearly brought the Middies to tears. "THIS is WAY better than the stuff they feed us!"
In addition to her work for YourTailgateParty.com, Karen's freelance credits include a tailgating article for Menu Magazine.
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Their Websites are:
YourTailgateParty.com
OnTheBlacktop.com
TheTailgateGuy.com
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Appearances:
WGRZ CH 2 NBC - Buffalo, NY (11/5)
WHDH CH 7 NBC- Boston, MA (11/10, 11/11, 11/12)
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 More Articles by Jay & Karen DiEugenio:
• Pizza Skookie
• Grid Iron Chef Challenge (Video)
• Keg Roaster Chicken
• Jay's Latest Tailgate Video
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