{"id":1025,"date":"2017-06-14T22:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T22:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2018-06-28T12:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T12:47:59","slug":"al-martinez-hits-first-home-run-for-college-world-series-before-the-first-game-is-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/al-martinez-hits-first-home-run-for-college-world-series-before-the-first-game-is-played\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Martinez Hits First Home Run for College World Series- Before the First Game is Played!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Martinez is Executive Sous Chef for Levy Restaurants, the CWS caterer via MECA. He created many wonderful dishes for us to sample-each one a home run.<\/p>\n<p>My favorites were the 18 inch &#8220;Strike Zone&#8221; calzone and the porkbelly slider. Some items were named after parts of Omaha like the South O 7 Layer Dip and the 10th Street Tostada.<\/p>\n<p>Other tasty offerings include: Grilled Street Dawg, Cuban Dawg, Double Play Burger, Southwest Turkey Burger,\u00a0 First Base Fried Pork Fritter Sandwich, Hand Carved Reuben Sandwich, Smothered Country Fries, and Batter\u2019s Box Nachos.<\/p>\n<p>On the lighter side, the Mediterranean Chicken Wrap was light, satisfying and refreshing on a hot summer&#8217;s day.<\/p>\n<p>On the sweet side you can enjoy Berrie Kabobs, cheesecake on a stick and a slice of giant rainbow cake<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the dish, College World Series fans will not just be cheering the teams but Al Martinez and his creations as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/omahanebraskaDOTcomcwsalmartinezlevyfoods-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/omahanebraskaDOTcomcwsalmartinezlevyfoods-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/omahanebraskaDOTcomcwsalmartinezlevyfoods-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/omahanebraskaDOTcomcwsalmartinezlevyfoods.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/omahanebraskaDOTcomcwsfoodIMG_4889t1000-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/omahanebraskaDOTcomcwsfoodIMG_4889t1000-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/omahanebraskaDOTcomcwsfoodIMG_4889t1000-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/omahanebraskaDOTcomcwsfoodIMG_4889t1000.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catch us on Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OmahaNebraskaDOTcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OmahaNebraskaDOTcom<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>and Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/inomahanebraska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@inomahanebraska<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Martinez is Executive Sous Chef for Levy Restaurants, the CWS caterer via MECA. He created many wonderful dishes for us to sample-each one a home run. My favorites were the 18 inch &#8220;Strike Zone&#8221; calzone and the porkbelly slider. Some items were named after parts of Omaha like the South O 7 Layer Dip &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/al-martinez-hits-first-home-run-for-college-world-series-before-the-first-game-is-played\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Al Martinez Hits First Home Run for College World Series- Before the First Game is Played!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[329,319,330,331],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-omaha","tag-al-martinez","tag-cws","tag-levy-restaurants","tag-meca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}