Category Archives: General

The time of meatballs is nowish, world. Portal ENGAGE. Destination: Planet Meatball!  Brooklyn Meatball Takedown is Feb 9, 2-4PM at The Bell House!  Call for the finest Brooklyn home cooks to punish the weak!!! Each ball a planet.  Each planet, … Continue reading →

If there is ever a cookie war, and that shit could actually happen, I have assembled my troops.  60 unsmiling Brooklynites who will fight and die for me or at least for cookies. You are in so much trouble, the … Continue reading →

Austin!  The 3rd leg of the Holiday Cookie Takedown tour!!! Email Matt Timms to compete at chilitakedown@gmail.com !!! Hey you guys because wow!  CALLING ALL COOKIE COOKS!  Make a big batch of cookies and bring it to Shangri La, December … Continue reading →

Boston, um you did what now? Actually a ton of cookies is inside you? Guilt shblilt! I bet I ate more!  Thanks to The Middle East (Have you tried their stuffed eggplant in the upstairs Lebanese restaurant?  Holy shit!) for … Continue reading →

BOSTON CALL FOR COOKS!  Email me to compete!!! (chilitakedown at gmail!) Sunday Dec 1 at Middle East!!!  2-4PM!!!!  The first stop on a 3-city tour brings radioactive special powers of tummy destruction to Boston!!! Enjoy the home baked cookies of … Continue reading →

Did you know that cats provide a lot of services? They can be pirates. And detectives.  Some cats hold down a steady job in NYC! Did you know that some cats can, incredibly, balance a cupcake and a bird on … Continue reading →

Sugarspazzattak! It’s coursing through our veins!  Peel us off the ceiling!!!! 12 local Chicagoans DID IT with 220 lbs of sugar, and now I’m runnng around town like a cracked-out happy 5 year old! Not sure if its sugar rush, … Continue reading →

You guys we really messed up!  Chili everywhere… I bet heaven is just like this: chili and pillows.   This year- a face-punching record of 29 Brooklyn Chilis showed up!!!!! Thanks for a brilliant time, chili heads!  Thanks to all … Continue reading →

This year the Brooklyn Cookie Takedown is  2 DAYS LONG FESTIVAL!!!  Matt Timms takes over the Bell House, Dec 7+8 (Saturday AND Sunday!!!), 2-4PM both days- just so you can eat cookies and drink bourbon like the Gods of Holiday … Continue reading →

Hello Chicago here is a challenge that should blast your home cookin’ minds utterly.  At the Chicago Food Film Fest, I’m giving each home cook a FREE 18lbs of Sugar in the Raw, to make any dish at all!!!  You … Continue reading →