8 dips to make for Super Bowl Sunday

A good dip should whet the appetite, a great dip could be lunch, and an excellent dip is really dinner. No one understands this better than Alyse Whitney, the undisputed dip queen and author of the book “Big Dip Energy: 88 Parties in a Bowl for Snacking, Dinner, Dessert and Beyond!” “The idea of big dip energy is having a magnetic personality that draws people to you like chips to a bowl of dip,” Whitney says. I once had 36 people in my studio apartment and I started doing a big tablescape and labeling the dips.” While any of the 88 dips in Whitney’s book could work for the Super Bowl, she suggests making a reinvented ranch dip she calls Cranch. “You use two full packets of ranch seasoning for extra flavor.” A variety of Cranch dips from Alyse Whitney’s book “Big Dip Energy: 88 Parties in a Bowl for Snacking, Dinner, Dessert and Beyond!” Whitney’s Cranch is listed as one of her “5-minute dips” in her book, but it really takes three. Lemon Pepper Chicken Dip Another one of Mims’ party dips, this is a spin on the classic Buffalo chicken dip and lemon pepper chicken wings.