He can down a homemade taco, or three. His favorite food is his mother's Navajo fry bread (using her mother's recipe), topped with ground beef, lettuce, tomato, beans, salsa, and cheese. He eats a minimum of two plate-sized "Navajo tacos" in each sitting, usually three.

At left, Ellsbury had a different kind of taco courtesy of Taco Bell, in honor of his stolen base in the World Series.