Pair beer and food for a Super Bowl feast

If your team didn’t make it to the Super Bowl, there’s one consolation: the Super Bowl party. Just when the winter doldrums have got you in their grip, along comes a reason to get together with friends and neighbors, watch some terrific commercials, love or hate those “perfect” Patriots and chow down. Super Bowl parties are a snap to host. No one thinks about ironing linens or polishing silver for a soiree in which at least half the participants will be dining in front of the tube. Grab the paper plates, put the beer on ice, cook up a bunch of rib-sticking eats and the party is under way.