Holy mother of porky wowzers!!!! Houston, you body-slammed me, you demons from hell!!!! What a fun time!!!! Here’s the winners! Thanks for all the ultra-violence, you guys! Many people were slaughtered on Sunday, and they all lived to tell the tale: 20 lovely bacon recipes made lovingly by 20 local badasses! Check out the super sweet pictures here! And a Houston blogger/takedowner blogged here!
Thanks to my sponsor, Hormel Black Label Bacon! Thanks to Warehouse Live, the sweetest mother of a venue ever! And thanks to all the hard work, you brilliant cooks you!
We had Biker Cooks, Roller Derby cooks, and even Fireman cooks!!! Contestants won Wusthof Knives, Anolon Pots, and vast amounts of Black Label Bacon!!!!
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AFTER THE JUMP MEET THE WINNERS, AND ALL THE CONTESTANTS!!! Continue reading →
Zoom on over, Houston!!! This Sunday!!! May 16th at Warehouse Live. 4PM! Try 20 different recipes from loca Houston cooks!!!Vote on your most favorite!!! Can’t wait to meet everybody- this Bacon Takedown will one day rule the earth…
And remember Houston, TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW!!! CLICK HERE, or visit warehouselive.com!!! Don’t miss out!!! WOOO!!!!!!
A percentage of sales will help support Feed America! And Hormel is matching the money raised!!! This is a rad thing!!!
It’s important that you guys know- Mind Kitchen and Takedown merchandise EXISTS. I just want there to be some sweet, sweet tees and mugs and thongs for you guys to need on…
Yeeee HAWWWW! Get PUMPED HOUSTON!!!! The Bacon Takedown rides into the hurricane!!! We’re heading to Houston, and looking for 20 Houston cooks to step forward and create 20 different bacon dishes. The good people of Houston will decide their worth, as they push hundreds of pounds of bacon down their happy gullets! 4PM, May 16th at Warehouse Live!!!
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Email Matt Timms to enter, Houston! I want to see what you got! free to enter the competition!! The first 20 people who enter will receive 15lbs of Black Label Hormel bacon to work with! Bacon candy, bacon cupcakes, bacon bread pudding!!! We’ve seen it all, because you can do anything with bacon- and its all better for it!!!
Prizes TBA (expect $$$ things like Wusthof Knives, Le Creuset cookware, etc – prizes are always generous and dope!)
Judges TBA – Houston chefs and foodwriters to judge…
Anyone can come down and for $15, try all the bacon dishes and vote on your favorite!!!! TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE – SOON…
This will be the best day of your life, and I’m including weddings, 21st birthdays, and that time you punched your boss!
The best. I’m serious, you guys. This thing was like… wow. Word of warning people- it’s a good idea to buy your tickets early. My events are starting to sell out online in Brooklyn! Yikes! Guess how big my ego is? Double that and you’ll be in the right ballpark! Throngs have happy carnivores devoured the 20 lamb inventions…
pic by Natash Ryan, Metromix
Hey and remember when I all bragged about TV on the Radio coming? Celeb hunters were jawdropping all over the place when Arthur Sulzberger, chairman of a little rag called the NEW YORK TIMES sauntered in… I only hope my celeb news-hounding doesn’t scare OTHER celebrities from coming to my parties! Hey celebrities!!! You are welcome!!! Come on down!!!
Thanks to all the brilliant cooks for all their hard work!! Thanks to the Bell House for being the best venue in NYC! And thanks to my very special judges Alan Sytsma (Food Network), Ben Mims (Saveur Magazine), and Kat Kinsman (CNN) for there smart-as-a-whip deductions!!!
Is it possible that the Mind Kitchen could get any cooler and more awesome? Actually, when your three guests are Melissa Sands (Fork This), Keavy Landreth (Kumquat Cupcakery), and Amber Marlow Blatt (Hey Brooklyn) – it’s not hard to look like a bad ass mega swamp bomb!!! MAN these guys made me SO COOL!!!
It’s always good to kick around some beers with good people and mull over 5 ingredients, till they BS me three impossible courses- and Heritage Radio Network is the dopest place to do just that!!! Thanks to Jack in the Booth for producing this thing, and supplying smartly placed echoes where they need to be. This show is maybe the coolest thus far…
Hope you notice the new logo for Mind Kitchen – I spent all day making it, and I really think it sums up the spirit of the Mind Kitchen: just as Crom‘s blade lies buried deep in the rooted earth, so must we excavate the brains of my contestants – and uncover a perfect 3 course meal!Get it??? Right??? I know!!
Oh and listen all the way to the end of this episode, because all three contestants snuck back into the studio to deliver Matt Timms an extra amuse-bouche of SMACK TALK! MANY OWCHIES DELIVERED!!
Music by Exodus, Iron Maiden, and Goatsnake.
Matt Timms (blown out) in the studio with Melissa, Keavy and Amber
And we’re back… The Lamb Takedown is BACK in NYC, 4PM April 18th at The Bell House!!!! Each contestant gets 15lbs of lamb- shoulder/shank/leg or ground to play with…
Truly the LAMB-orghini Countach Quartravore of all Takedowns… Yes! I just said that! Count on Emily Fleischaker from Bon Appetit to judge you sternly. So much lamb- the funnest meat there ever was!
...and check out the hevvvy lamb tee -available at the event for sale!
If you missed the Austin Bacon Takedown – check out the last post, and live viscerally through the fanpage photos (and add yourself) – and laugh and laugh with all the fun and true people that were there!
Addie Broyles from the Austin Statesman judged the bacon festivities, and documented the moment as well, in beautiful HD vids!!!!
Hilah, the grand prize winner and BBBacon sensation, coincidentally documented the moment. So lucky to have an exotic blonde with her own cooking show win first place – hey, The People spoke and they wanted Hilah. BAD!
Holy mother of porky wowzers!!!! Houston, you body-slammed me, you demons from hell!!!! What a fun time!!!! Here’s the winners! Thanks for all the ultra-violence, you guys! Many people were slaughtered on Sunday, and they all lived to tell the tale: 20 lovely bacon recipes made lovingly by 20 local badasses! Check out the super sweet pictures here! And a Houston blogger/takedowner blogged here!
Zoom on over, Houston!!! This Sunday!!! May 16th at Warehouse Live. 4PM! Try 20 different recipes from loca Houston cooks!!!Vote on your most favorite!!! Can’t wait to meet everybody- this Bacon Takedown will one day rule the earth…
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