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  • America's Best Stadium Food

    <p> <b>Sports stadiums have drafted celebrity chefs and local gourmet shops to up their game in the food court.</b> </p> <p> By Ratha Tep </p> <p> At the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, sports fans can taste the best of the borough: pulled-pork sandwiches from chef Zak Pelaccio's Fatty 'Cue; tacos piled with beer-battered cod and mango salsa at Calexico, which began as a popular street cart; and smoky brisket dogs by Michelin-starred chef Saul Bolton. </p> <p> "By tapping into the Brooklyn culinary scene and sourcing from local artisans and farms, the arena experience can be emblematic of a particular city or region," says Chris Granger, executive vice president of team marketing and business operations at the NBA. </p> <p> The Barclays Center's concession stands, carts, and restaurants demonstrate how far food at stadiums and arenas across the U.S. has come since the days of industrial-cheese-drenched nachos and other standardized fare. Whether you're rooting for football or baseball, soccer or hockey, your <a rel="nofollow" title="" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-best-stadium-food/2">stadium food choices</a> are likely to come from hometown celebrity chefs and local gourmet shops, and incorporate regional ingredients and twists. </p> <p> We surveyed sports writers like Law and and Buster Olney of <i>ESPN The Magazine</i> as well as sports-obsessed chefs and restaurateurs to come up with the sports stadiums whose food can be as satisfying as the action on the field. Read on for <a rel="nofollow" title="" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-best-stadium-food/2">the winners</a>. </p> <p> <b>More Articles from T+L</b> </p> <p> <a rel="nofollow" title="Best French Fries" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/best-french-fries-in-the-us">Funny Signs From Around the World</a> </p> <p> <a rel="nofollow" title="Best French Fries" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/best-french-fries-in-the-us">Best French Fries in the U.S.</a><a rel="nofollow" title="Strange Beaches" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-strangest-beaches"><br></a> </p> <p> <a rel="nofollow" title="Strange Beaches" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-strangest-beaches">World's Strangest Beaches</a> <a rel="nofollow" title="Delicious Street Food" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-delicious-street-foods"><br></a> </p> <p> <a rel="nofollow" title="Delicious Street Food" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-delicious-street-foods">World's Most Delicious Street Foods</a> <br> </p>

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  • World’s Strangest Desserts

    <p> <b>Let them eat cake. You've got these wonderfully bizarre desserts to try instead. <br></b> </p> <p> <i>This piece is reprinted from</i> <i><a rel="nofollow" title="World's Strangest Desserts" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-strangest-desserts/2">Travel + Leisure</a></i> // By <a rel="nofollow" title="" target="" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/authors/1538">Lola Akinmade Åkerström</a> </p> <p> Dessert doesn't get more traditional than American pie-unless you've ordered cherpumple, which stacks layers of apple, cherry, and pumpkin pies within a spice cake that's sealed in cream cheese frosting. An L.A. humorist invented it in 2009, and a year later, a Philadelphia bakery introduced the similar 1,880-calorie-per-slice Pumpple Cake. </p> <p> These after-dinner sweets were no afterthought. Chefs increasingly push the boundaries of what qualifies as dessert, experimenting with savory, spicy ingredients and radical presentations. Other strange desserts draw on centuries-old, culturally specific recipes that can require days of preparation work. </p> <p> The kitchen staff at Istanbul's five-star <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-guide/istanbul/hotels/ciragan-palace-hotel-kempinski-istanbul" title="Ciragan Palace Hotel">Ciragan Palace Hotel</a>-an elaborate compound that the last sultans called home-needs 72-hour notice to prepare the $1,000 Sultan's Golden Cake. The process includes the infusion of rare French Polynesian vanilla, a topping of caramelized black truffles, and a coating of 24-karat edible gold flakes. </p> <p> At the other end of the price scale, you'll find <i>ais kacang</i>, sold in food courts across Malaysia and Singapore. Made from shaved ice mixed with red beans, lychee fruit, and green grass jelly, and topped with evaporated milk, this dessert requires an adventurous palate. David Hogan Jr., who manages the Malaysia Asia blog, is a fan: "To me, it's awesome, but some of my foreign friends could not understand it at all," he shares. "It's the green jelly that would most probably scare you as it looks like green worms." </p> <p> Other strange desserts get their wow factor from chefs who take a mad-scientist approach-using liquid nitrogen, for instance-or who employ theatrical flair. Chicago-based chef Grant Achatz of the restaurant Alinea has earned a reputation for dishes that defy the ordinary. Imagine a server swirling spoonfuls of red lingonberry syrup and yellow butternut directly on your tabletop, followed by drops of sweet stout reduction, before smashing bowling-size chocolate balls like piñatas. </p> <p> "The idea of plating on an entire table surface was something we thought of before Alinea opened," he says. "We wanted to go beyond the limitations of the plate in an effort to maximize the scale of the presentation." </p> <p> Here are <a rel="nofollow" title="World's Strangest Desserts" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-strangest-desserts">more desserts</a> that go beyond the limits of the familiar, with strange and often delectable results. </p> <p> <b>More from <i>Travel + Leisure</i>:</b> <br> <b><a rel="nofollow" title="World's Strangest Ice Cream" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-strangest-ice-cream">World's Strangest Ice Cream</a> <br> <a rel="nofollow" title="World's Strangest Candy" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-strangest-candy">World's Strangest Candy</a> <br> <a rel="nofollow" title="World's Strangest Chocolates" target="_blank" href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-strangest-chocolates">World's Strangest Chocolate</a></b> <br> </p>

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