Food and Wine Magazine just gave Matt Timms the ULTIMATE HONOR: They think he is the Most Important Human! In a ranking system that thoroughly culled all humans and rejected the bad ones, Matt Timms made the Top 10! The piece is titled: Top 40 Big Thinkers Under 40! I’m No. 10!!!!!!
Thanks BIG TIME, Food & Wine Magazine!!!! So super sweet!!!!
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First, a lesson about history:
In ancient times, Incas or was it Mayans invented chocolate and chile and LOVED IT!
That’s exactly what we did at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens this October 2! I recruited 6 CELEBRITY TAKEDOWNERS and gave them $150 each and marching orders: make a dish that combines chocolate and chiles in the best way possible. If you know any Mayans or Incans, maybe get their advice, too.
6 warriors. 300+ eaters.
At noon, these 6 dudes showed up at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, where The Chile Fiesta took place!!! And that’s when it happened!!! THRONGS of gardeners descended on our little table space and attacked the sweet and savory dishes laid out for them. (10,000+ people came to the Chile Fiesta this year!!!) Quick as they could, they gulped down:
Chocolate and Chile beef and mole Trigonas!!! by Greg Erskine
Chile and Chocolate Fudge and Chocolate Milk!!!! by Alyson Mance
Chile and Chocolate Icebox Cake!!! by Andrea Lynn
Chile and Chocolate Ice Cream!!! by Chris Greenberg
Chile and Chocolate Fondue and Bacon!!!! by Daniel Marino
Chile and Chocolate Chicken Wings!!! by Adrian Ashby
It is criminal that there can only be one winner because it was all so good, but hey that’s the way the chile and chocolate cookie crumbles, doods. Greg Erskine’s Trigonas charmed the multitudes!
Matt Timms explains about life, and being a winner. Contestants look on in awe, or was that pity...
Thanks to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden staff- who are so super cool… this is the 3rd year they’ve invited the TD to come in and show the world how it is done!!!
The thrill of victory is almost hallucinogenic for 3-time TD winner Greg Erskine.
PS In a show of remarkable sportsmanship, fellow competitor Andrea Lynn wrote a nice piece about Greg Erskine’s Trigonas at Serious Eats! check it out!
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IS SOLD OUT!!! Thanks big time to all you lucky ticket holderzzzz!!!!
Oct 17 4PM at The Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn !
Things got pretty crazy after the first ever Bacon Takedown last year… Bacon blew up. The Bacon Explosion was a thing that happened. The ridiculous assertions of shark-jumpage did NOT come to fruition. A bacon chap stick was gross. And Matt Timms began jet-setting the Bacon Takedown to 6 other cities around the US of A!!!
WELP! The Brooklyn Bacon Takedown is BACK ON HOME TURF. Oct 17 at The Bell House!!! And I want you to come down and ENJOY 20 different BRILLIANT recipes… from your very own homegrown New Yorky cooks… they’re each getting 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon to work with…
POP QUIZ, HOT SHOTS: What won People’s Choice at the last year’s Brooklyn Takedown??? The correct and true answer is Mike O’Neil’s Bacon Bourbon Ice Cream… and yes, he will be returning to defend his title.
He’ll be battling it out in bacon hell with all the others, fighting for Wustof Knives, Anolon Pots, Microplane Graters, and a YEAR’S SUPPLY OF HORMEL BLACK LABEL BACON!!! Who shall emerge, bloodied but unbowed!!!!???
Judges:
Kate Krader , Senior Editor at Food & Wine Magazine !
Erica “Chef Smartypants” Wides from “Let’s Get Real, with Chefsmartypants” (previously titled “Why We Cook”) on Heritage Radio Network !
Jimmy Carbone of Jimmy’s No. 43 in Manhattan !
Saddle up, New York. Sunday Oct 17 is very important.
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This is the 3rd year in a row the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens have DEMANDED the Takedown come back for this epic day of Chile Pepper Worship! 10,000 people swarm the lawns and gardens, to find out about the chile pepper: hot sauce, hot bands, and hot people (me). 6 Brooklyn cooks will demonstrate their prowess in a mini-Takedown that fuses chocolate and chiles in the smartest ways… 3 savory concoctions, 3 sweet concoctions…
Saturday Oct 2 ALL DAY at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, this thing is ON.
But the Takedown event is only on for an hour and a half! Stop by our tent, and watch the action from HIGH NOON to 1:30PM. Here’s our perps- every man-jack of them a verified Brooklyn Takedown Celebrity… Chris Greenberg, Alyson Mance, Dan Marino, Greg Erskine, Adrian Ashby, and Andrea Lynn!!!! What do they have up their SLEEVIES??? My advice to you is to hustle on over WITH GREAT HASTE!!!
Get all the Chile Fiesta news and events HERE!!!!
Is you guys serious??? Turns out, alchemy is REAL in New Orleans. People there know how to cook. They also know how to drink, and they showed me how, which is why I’m a little tardy with this particular bacon missive. But I need to tell you- New Orleans is the most funnest city, and the people who came to this thing at Howlin’ Wolf Did The Right Thing. In NOLA they is eating pig from the ROOTER TO THE TOOTER – and now that is a said thing that will be in my brain forever.
AFTER THE JUMP- SEE WHO WON!!! Continue reading
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Don’t MISS OUT ON THE VARSITY YUMMINESS!!! This Sunday at Howlin Wolf, 3PM! Here’s all the info!
There’s still some room for some contestants, so EMAIL ME to enter! Or buy super cheap tickets here for all-you-can-eat bacon!!!!
SEE YOU THERE!!!!
CATEGORY: Bacon Takedown, GeneralChicago is the greatest. No, really. Cars don’t honk. People wave. And bacon is brilliantly enabled in genius-type ways!!!! What DIDN’T we see at the Chicago Bacon Takedown???? There were toffees, jams, empanadas… I was most flumuxed!!!! Buh. Thanks big time to the all-new and incredible venue Lincoln Hall !!! Thanks big time to everyone at Hormel Black Label Bacon for sponsoring this super sweet bacon extravaganza!!!! And especially thanks to all the beautiful cooks who brought their insanest game to the party…
Here’s some pics of The Madness.
And here’s a recap:
they is all winners, really.
AT A GLANCE:
· Overall winner, Rafael Lopez, dominated with his homemade Bacon English Muffin topped with bacon and cheese. Rafael took home a one-year supply of Hormel® Black Label® bacon, Analon and Microplane cookware and a Bacon Takedown trophy.
· Judges winner Marah and Genevieve “Troop 312” of AV Club Chicago, punched a hole through the sky with their Sow-moa cookies, taking home a six-month supply of Hormel® Black Label® bacon, with Anolon and Microplane cookware.
· Lucky audience member Nick Eigan took home a one-year supply of Hormel® Black Label® bacon and a Takedown T-Shirt.
Baconscotch.com also gave $25 certificates to the People’s Choice winners- good at any restaurant.com restaurant!!!
Thanks muchly to our guest judges:
o Chuck Sudo – Chicagoist.com
o Seth Zurer – Baconfest Chicago
Winners
Prizes included a one-year supply and six-month supply of Hormel® Black Label® bacon, Anolon cookware and Microplane graters.
People’s Choice:
Judges Choice:
After the jump, check out the full list of recipes!!! Photos coming soon!!! Continue reading
CATEGORY: Bacon Takedown, GeneralCALL FOR COMPETITORS! The New Orleans Bacon Takedown is coming to Howlin’ Wolf, September 19th at 3PM!!! We’re looking for 20 cooks to step forward and accept a FREE 15lbs of Black Label Bacon each- to create whatever bacon masterpiece they can food up! Hurry to enter!!! Email mtimms7@hotmail.com for a spot!
Enter to compete for super sweet culinary gear! Anolon Pots! Wusthof Knives! Microplane Graters!
Attendees can come on down and STUFF themselves for $15, and vote on their favorite bacon creation!!! TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE!!!
Bacon cupcakes, bacon ice cream, bacon tacos, bacon candy bars… expect the unexpectedly amazing…!!!!
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OR JUST BUY A TICKET AND COME ON DOWN!!!
Chicago: show no mercy. I want to see your bacon recipes!!! Sept 11 1:30PM at Lincoln Hall, we shall witness and cast judgement on 20 funtascular bacon recipes that will melt your heart.
EMAIL ME to enter! Anyone can!!! I want to see self-taught geniuses, and find out what they can do! I make dreams come true! I can give you 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon with which to create your farthest-fetched bacon notion!!! Enter now!!! There’s $1500 worth of TOP NOTCH PRIZES from:
Or come on down and try all the bacon dishes for $15! TICKETS available HERE!
Bacon cupcakes, tacos, bloody marys… you will break down and sob from the happiness…
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300 lbs of lamb recipes arrived at Thirsty Bear, and leveled the place. All attendees are sleeping now because of the 19 different recipes, all perfect…
There were some winners, but there were no losers. THANKS to Thirsty Bear, and the American Lamb Board, for making the Takedown San Francisco’s new Favorite Thing.
the line out the door - a pack of wild animals, waiting to be fed!
And THANKS to all the ultra dope contestants, for bringing vicious lamb, and punching us all in the throat! We love you!!!!
Here’s the winners:
All placed winners won an Anolon Skillet or Pan, a Wusthof Knife, and a Microplane Grater!!! I am so pumped about my amazing prize sponsors!!!!
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(My illustrious and friendly judges were Christine Yue Gallary, Food Editor, (Chow.com), Amy Sherman, Blogger, (Cooking with Amy), and John Birdsall, Writer, (SF Weekly)
1st Place: #13 David Barzelay – Lazy Bear Lamb Nuggets
2nd Place: #12 Good Foods Catering – Slow-roasted Lamb with Preserved Lemons
3rd Place: #17 Joyce Tang and Greg Pett – Ricky Bobby’s Lambo
PEOPLE’S CHOICE:
1st Place: #12 Good Foods Catering – Slow-roasted Lamb with Preserved Lemons
2nd Place: #17 Joyce Tang and Greg Pett – Ricky Bobby’s Lambo
3rd Place: #2 Sara Maamouri – Maghrebi Braised Shank
4th Place: #16 Tom and Allison Capo – Brasied Leg, Blue cheese and lemongrass pickled onion, polenta
5th Place: #11 Dan and Liat Blomgren – Kebap!
After the jump, witness ALL the amazing recipes to be had at the first ever SFLTD!
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