"super bowl week" news and stories

Today is the final day in our Super Bowl Week series. So far, we've featured dips and appetizers, main dishes, healthy snacks and sweet treats. Today, we're going with a twist on the idea and focusing on foods you eat out of a bowl in honor of Sunday's big game. In order to find an appropriate picture to feature today, I went searching around our Flickr group (you should wander on over and join the group) looking for things that talked about bowls. And I think I found something of a winner with this image.

Taken by Loua, this gorgeous bowl of potato salad begs to be spooned out into smaller bowls and devoured. I tend to think of potato salad as a summer dish, but the necessary ingredients are available all year round and would make a really tasty addition to your Super Bowl buffet (especially if you add some torn basil leaves like Loua did).

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In the last few days, we've talked about chicken wings and chili, queso and pizzas. However, our food choices have mostly been directed by our own personal likes and dislikes. Over at Ask.com, they've taken a more scientific approach towards Super Bowl food, tallying their search results in order to create a list of the Ten Most Popular Super Bowl Snacks. According to their study, here are most popular foods.

1. Chili
2. Pizza
3. Meatballs
4. Salsa
5. Ribs
6. Spinach dip
7. Wings
8. Guacamole
9. Quesadillas
10. Artichoke dip

Of these foods, what are you planning on serving at your Super Bowl party? (Personally, I'll take any excuse to eat guacamole, which is why I picked Slashfood Flickr pool member You Can Count on Me's picture of it to illustrate this post).

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Gasp! You mean not everyone has an intense need to watch the Super Bowl? I am shocked! Well, maybe not so much. I may be slightly curious to see who wins, but I have very little desire to actually watch the big game.

That's why I was so excited today when I turned the TV on, which is a fairly rare occurrence in itself, and saw what Food Network is offering. They're broadcasting a "Wedding Bowl Marathon," featuring several Food Network Challenges about wedding cakes. As cake decorating is near and dear to my heart, this is a much more appealing line up than hour upon hour of football. I thought to myself that I'd have to try to remember this, but quickly came to realize that it wouldn't be all that hard as Food Network was running the promo during every commercial break.

The Wedding Bowl Marathon is on Sunday, February 3 and it starts at 3 pm eastern. I realize that not everyone is as interested in cakes as I am, so it might not appeal to all. However, in my humble opinion, the Wedding Bowl Marathon is way more exciting than any other bowl going on. Decorate, hike!

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Today is the day that we're feature main dish foods appropriate for the Super Bowl and so it seems like a good time to look at some of the star foods that come out of New York and explain why they are so vastly superior to those items on offer in the New England area.

Our star representative is New York pizza. It is so very much better than anything available in New England (or really in the rest of the country, but that's another post). One might even say that New York pizza is the Platonic Ideal of pizza. Growing up in Portland, OR we had a pizza place called "Escape from New York Pizza." There was no pizza trying to escape from Boston. Additionally, the premiere pizza site in the blogosphere, the beloved Slice, comes out of New York. Need we say more?

I'm going to turn it over to you, our thoughtful and opinionated Slashfood readers. What are your favorite New York foods?

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For some reason, Super Bowl foods tend to be pretty meat-centric. When I think game day foods, I think chili (with ground turkey or beef), burgers, steaks or Italian hoagies (also known as subs/grinders/heros/po'boy in other parts of the country) stacked high with salami. But there are lots of other things that make good, warming, stick to your ribs game food (important if you plan on playing a half-time game of touch football).

Recently I made a pot of Broccoli and Cheddar Soup, which would make a great Super Bowl offering. It uses a full half pound of cheddar (the sharper the better) so your carnivores will feel satisfied, but also incorporates several large heads of broccoli, making it feel slightly healthy. It can also be made the day before and reheated, which is always a nice feature when you're cooking for a crowd.

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