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Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl Publishes “Top Chefs” Online Tailgate-Inspired Cookbook

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A Roster of Popular Area Culinary and Mixology Stars Serves Up Signature Recipes

 Fans Can Make “Right at Home” This Football Season

 

As excitement ramps up for 2018 college and pro football season with all the spirited camaraderie of stadium tailgating, the 2018 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl has served up the perfect “go-to” online cookbook of fan-tastic tailgate-inspired recipes.  Debuted September 5 at www.CheribundiBocaRatonBowl.com, the cookbook is a celebration keepsake of “Boca’s Biggest Annual Outdoor Party”, the Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl that kicks off on the Tuesday before Christmas each year at FAU Stadium that is broadcast live on ESPN.

 

The collection of 25 signature recipe entries were originated by a roster of 20 of the area’s top chefs and mixologists who presented their creative cookery for the Bowl’s fourth annual Great Chefs Tailgate Showcase & College Football Spirit Night. Each tailgate dish and cocktail was recognized for its unique “take on tailgate” by a panel of judges made up of local expert “foodie” media and bloggers, event guests (People’s Choice) and the Community Captains Committee during the friendly competition. The judges included Sun Sentinel Food & Dining Critic Michael Mayo, Local Mom Scoop blogger Heather McMechan, The South Florida Sage blogger Holli Lapes, My South Florida Today blogger Justin Tompkins, Stepping Out Florida blogger Deby Goldfarb and Food & Florida and JanNorris.com blogger Jan Norris.

Separated by categories, the featured cookbook recipes include:
Starters:

 

 

Sliders:

M.E.A.T. Eatery & Taproom, Chef George Patti

 

Chartwells at Florida Atlantic University, Campus Executive Chef Shane Lynch

 

Palm Beach Gardens Marriott, Chef Mike Jimenez

Main Dishes:

           Oceans 234, Executive Chef William Middleton

 

Desserts

 

 

Cocktails:

Cherbundi Tart Cherry

 

Citrus Distillers, LLC

 

“We are so pleased to share this well-timed, mouth-watering online cookbook as we enter the 2018 college and pro football season in countdown to the Fifth Annual Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl this December,” reports Doug Mosley, Executive Director, Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. “Die-hard, longtime and new tailgate party hosts can now ‘up their game’ stadium-side or at home with ‘tasty’ top chef-worthy fare.”

 

Bowl Fans Should Plan to Attend This Year’s Great Chefs Tailgate Showcase That Benefits Spirit of Giving

Already prepping for this year’s 2018 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl Great Chefs Tailgate Showcase & College Football Spirit Night, most of the chefs are returning for this popular community “fan, food and fund” raiser. That is when food and football fans are encouraged to come out in their favorite college football attire on Wednesday, November 14 from 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Boca Raton Hotel.

Admission is $50 per person for advance ticket purchases at www.spiritofgivingnetwork.org and $60 per person at the door. It includes all food and drink tastings, entertainment, and beer, wine and soft drinks. One hundred percent of ticket sales and silent auction proceeds will benefit the Bowl’s Charity Partner Spirit of Giving to help spread magic to thousands of children through its annual holiday gift drive.

 

About the Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl: The Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl is one of 41 postseason college bowl games in the country and the only one hosted in Palm Beach County. Featuring all the pomp and circumstance of traditional bowl events, the Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl is a high-energy, entertaining experience for both college football fans and non-fans alike and allows the national spotlight to shine on Boca Raton and Palm Beach County. This year, the fifth annual bowl game will have primary tie-ins for teams from Conference USA and the American Athletic Conference with the Mid-American Athletic Conference having a secondary tie-in. The team from Conference USA will make its headquarters at the Boca Raton Resort & Club and the American Athletic Conference team will be at the PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach Gardens.

 

This bowl game first ‘touched down’ in 2014 and has since aired live annually on ESPN throughout the U.S., as well as on international affiliates in South America, the Caribbean, Australia and Europe as well as on ESPN Radio. As one of 14 bowl games owned and operated by ESPN Events, a division of ESPN, this year’s bowl game is once again held on the Tuesday before Christmas. The event has become a celebrated annual holiday tradition in Boca Raton and Palm Beach County as it lives up to its other name, “Boca’s Biggest Annual Outdoor Party”. Bowl week activities will begin with the arrival of the participating teams on Friday, Dec. 14. Days, times and sites for the team welcome parties, beach parties, luncheon, pep rallies and other bowl week activities will be released at a later date. For more info, visit www.CheribundiBocaRatonBowl.com.
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