“If you love Milwaukee so much why don’t you just marry it?” Okay okay okay get real you suck-ass mo-mos. Because… I already DID marry it!!!  All I can say is Milwaukee is way better than you is, and I even pretended to like the Packers even though I hate all sports just so Milwaukee would think I’m cool. And they bought it! Because they brought 260lbs of mac and cheeze to the Mac and Cheeze Takedown (1 tray of mac and cheeze=at least 5lbs, x2 per team, 26 teams = 260lbs!!)

Lakefront Brewery, stuffed with WI cheezehedz who took zero prisoners

Swords up! And thank you to all the home cooks of Milwaukee!!!! The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board was an awesome sponsor- and PROVED ONCE AND FOR ALL that Wisconsin Cheeze is really the best in the world, word up.

PICS UP HERE!

Here’s all the winners and the awesomest ones too, that even got prizes and such… Continue reading →

CALL FOR COOKS! We’re heading to New Mexico without ever leaving New York City! Get sensational with me at the 2013 NYC Food Film Festival–  this takedown is all about the Green “Hatch” Chile Pepper!!! I’m giving 5 FREE lbs of green chiles (shipped in from NM!) to NYC’s home cooks!!! What you devise is your own infernal business – the public will deduce your brilliance via ballot! Winnerz shall be named!  Loserz shall still feel pretty awesome about the whole thing!!! Fight for prizes!!!!

Oct 27 at AMC Village 7! 5:30 till whenevers!!!

The Public – you’ll be sitting in your seats watching food movies and eating what’s on the screen at the Farm to Film to Table screening series!  THEN it’s Green Chile Takedown time!!! Try all the brilliant recipes and vote on the yummiest!! Easily the best time spent in a movie theater since Bianchi’s 1975 Strip Nude for your Killer (named Most Perfect Movie by Matt Timms, expert)

TICKETS HERE!

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Yes it is true of course.  Only the funnest of bacon things is back again and this time OH GOD your head just exploded that’s gross you are so fired unless you can somehow spoon your grey matter back into your own brain pan just before your boss gets back EW YUK! IT’s too LATE!

Oct 19 (SATURDAY!), 2013 1-3PM at The Bell House

TICKETS HERE , FOOS!

Prizes sponsored by:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Want to eat all that Mac and Cheezez?TICKETS HERE!!!!

Milwaukee Mac and Cheeze Takedown! September 29, Noon to 2PM at Lakefront Brewery! Sponsored by the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board!

20 very serious Milwaukee home cooks will enter the Thunderplex (AKA Lakefront Brewery)!!!!  Steaming mounds of cheeze in their trays, and an unholy glint in their eye!!!  The barbarous Milwaukee hordes (ticket holders) will descend on them like bats out of hell, and taste every single delicious cheezy recipe until they are all sated!!!  Winners will be chosen!!! Fun will be mad!  Cheeze! Cheeze!  Cheeze!

CALL FOR COOKS! EMAIL CHILITAKEDOWN@GMAIL DOT COM to SIGN UP!!!My sponsor The Wisconsin Milk Board is giving $50 to each home cook with a proud Mac and Cheeze recipe! You’ll spend it on any of the varieties of Wisconsin Cheeze to make your dish!  You’re fighting for over $1000 in cookware prizes from Anolon, Microplane, Wusthof and tons of MAC AND CHEEZY SWAG!!! There’s a people’s choice and a judges catagory, and plenty of cheezy freebies besides!  Roll up them sleevies, Milwaukee!!!

Want to gorge on unlimited Mac and Cheeze, and vote on your fave??? $15 gets you unlimited Mac and Cheeze!!! TICKETS HERE!!!!

Matt Timms presents the Takedown series, an 11 year food party based out of Brooklyn, NY. This national culinary tour only and always celebrates the supreme doings of local home cooks, in the raddest cities across the country…

Check out Gabi Porter’s pics from last year’s Brooklyn Mac and Cheeze Takedown at ZAGAT!

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With a slew of important dance moves ending in one giant pelvic thrust, the BTD slunk its way into the hearts of throngs of happy baconizerz!!! We and by we I mean Chicago the best town on earth LOVE our bacon.  Thanks big time to the home cooks, who pushed their ovens and fryers to the limit to make Gioza! Parfait! Gelato! Insane!!!!!!

Thanks as always to the rad people at Lincoln Hall for being such pros!  And of course to my extra rad as always sponsor, Hormel Black Label Bacon!!!!

Here after the yump are all the recipes and a wrap up of the prize winning yummernesses… Continue reading →

September 14,  300lbs of bacon will be consumed mightily by Chicago’s best people.  WE NEED BACON DO-ERS. 4 SPOTS still open! I’ll GIVE you 15LBS of FREE BACON to COMPETE!

4th Annual Chicago Bacon Takedown Sept 14 2-4PM at Lincoln Hall!

CALL FOR COOKS – I’m entrusting 20 local cooks with 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon to make 20 resplendent bacon recipes!!!  Fight for cookware prizes- and even a year’s supply of bacon!

Coming to just eyes-closed happyeat?  TICKETS HERE at Lincoln Hall!  (ONLY $15!!)

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Prizes sponsored by:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

laughing in my face winners of a bitterly fought auction for rights to keepers of a King of the Guinea Pigz painting!

Hope you like kittenz.  And elvises.  And also unicorns that don’t give a crap! Because that’s what got painted on smooth silky velvet canvases for three hours at the Active Space last Sunday!  And auctioned off to the most serious of art collectors!!! First ever Velvet Painting Takedown was a huge $ucce$$! All to raise $$$DO RAY ME$$$ for Art-Start.Org – and all those needy kids!

CHECK OUT THE PICS HERE– PERUSE THE ARTISTS AND PAINTINGS!!!

Thanks big time to sponsors Utrecht for the supplies, and SixPoint for the booze!!!!

Grumpy three ways, howling at the moon- and BLACKLIGHT READY!

Among the artists present: Sines,  Silky’s Skate Shop , Sharon Kendrick, Megan Kluttz, Alice Q. Hoang, Caroline Voagen, Barbara Benas, Jamie Emerson, Josetth Gordon, Christopher LoPresti, Vanessa Thorpe, Susanne Lamb, Lola Belle

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A terrifying blast of liquid nitro!!!!!

BOSTON ICE CREAM TAKEDOWN!!! I was supposed to be a famous actor.  Or a famous film director. Kind of typical dreams, I know but in my wildest, I never thought my lot in life would be to tour the country, throwing ice cream parties and bacon parties and whatnot, making the coolest friends with America’s local homecooks.  I rule so bad right now, I just did one of my special dance moves here alone in my Brooklyn apartment. I’m back from the Boston Ice Cream TD, where as usual, everyone destroyed ice cream WICKED BAD>>>>>>  !!!!

Hey Boston!  Get ready to taste TONS of home made ice cream on Sunday August 18th at The Armory in Somerville!!!  You’re voting to name one hard working home cook the Takedown Champion of the Universe!

Hey home cooks!  Fight! For your right! To ice cream!!! EMAIL ME TO COMPETE!  Tons of prizes and important good times!!!! August 18 2-4PM @ Arts for the Armory!  Matt Timms pits local cooks against one another in the middle of the oogiest month!

And for those of you that dream only of swimming in seas of limitless ice cream- eat all you want for only $15!  Taste all and vote on the winner!!!! Tickets HERE!!!!

Prize Sponsors:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Lay your nasty paws on them brushes, Brooklyn painters of paintz! It’s Velvet Takedown time! Buttery black velvet art is the only medium that matters to dealers and by dealers I mean stoop sales, flea markets, certain seized assets auctions…

August 25 at The Active Space (566 Johnson Ave off the Morgan L stop)- party 5PM till the edge of infinity !!!!!

NYC’s 20 top sophisticated artists paint their best unicorns, Elvises, hula ladiez, naked guys or girls… basically anything that really pops on exquisite black velvet!

FREE TO HANG! Your job is to stink up the joint, vote on your favorite painting*, drink beers and eat vegan chili! Artists are painting for prizes and pride – and all the work is auctioned off at the end to you the BUYER!! ALL $$$ raised goes to Art Start – helping NYC’s at-risk kids through the creative arts, so I hope you like helping people!

Check out what WSJ said of the last Painting Takedown – that you missed!!!!!

*All paintings will be black light tested on premises for maximum psychedelic effect

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