Join me on Friday, February 1, at 11:15 AM EST, as the Sirius radio channel devoted to Martha Stewart Everyday Food will be featuring Super Bowl party tips, with host Sandy Gluck. Chefs from every NFL city will be preparing their signature dishes for the Taste of the NFL – and Martha Radio is there in Phoenix. Tune in Friday morning and Saturday evening for recipes, menu ideas and all the goodies for hosting a fun Super Bowl party – including craft beer pairing tips! Here’s the link:

http://www.sirius.com/marthastewartlivingradio

Here’s a review with a nice round-up of Superbowl recipes from food writer Marialisa Calta, published in the Daily Dispatch newspaper, Douglas, Arizona. I like her advice that party food should be self-contained and portable, so as not to obscure the sightlines!

I also got a call from Bill Brand of What’s on Tap, the California Craft Beer Newsletter asking for recommendations on beer and potato chip pairings…and here you go:

Barbecue flavored potato chips – Brown ale – sweet and spicy!

Vinegar and salt flavored potato chips – American wheat ale – fruity esters match with tangy vinegar

Dill flavored potato chips – Bold craft pilsner – hoppy meets herbal on the palate

Beer flavored potato chips – India pale ale – because beer chips taste sweet, salty and malty

Plain potato chips – Farmhouse ale – in homage to frites, which predate the potato chip by, oh, a few centuries.

Add your suggestions…

For decades, Anheuser-Busch has held exclusive beer sponsorships at stadiums, festivals, even culinary cook-offs such as Memphis in May. But now, the biggest brewer in America seems to wish to appear somewhat smaller, more approachable, as a sponsor of next month’s Charleston Food & Wine Festival under the imprimatur of Here’s to Beer. Both the A-B brewmaster and Chef Brent Wertz from the A-B resort, the Kingsmill Spa, will be talking ’bout beer and food pairings at the festival, with celebrity chefs such as Carrie Nahabedian of Naha in Chicago, and Chris Hastings of the Hot and Hot Fish Club in Birmingham, Alabama. Hope that the foodies who visit Charleston for the fest will also go out of their way to sample the local Palmetto Brewing Co. Porter or the new COAST Brewing Co.’s HopArt IPA.