The Takedown

CALL FOR COOKS! Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com to compete!  It’s free!

As everyone knows from historically, tacos were invented in Los Angeles (true).  Local cooks! This is the partiest goodest time, you guys. Prove your valor and do this TAKEDOWN!!! Bring your taco filling, La Princesita will provide the tortillas! CALL FOR HOME COOKS!  FREE TO COMPETE! Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com – bring your best taco filling and make mini tacos! You’re playing for crazy amounts of cookware prize$$$!!!

Want to EAT and EAT and EAT all the tacos?!  Unlimited tacos – TICKETS HERE!

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

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A Valentine’s Day Takedown…  eat the shit out of a ton of chocolate, and learn…to love 🙁 … I’m actually wicked proud to say that since I’ve started doing this thing 15 years ago, 4 couples have met and subsequently married through the takedown.  For real!  They met at a TD, enjoyed the same food, and Matt Timms knocked their heads together and they magically fell in love!!!  This can and will continue to happen, especially at this very special Valentine’s Day Takedown!!!

Come if you are in love, OR come if you hate love, and think a sensible replacement is CHOCOLATE! And drinking!!!! >>>>>>>> TICKETS HERE

The Brooklyn Chocolate Takedown – Feb 14 Noon-2PM at The Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club!!!

Want to compete? Event sponsor Raaka will GIVE you all the chocolate you’ll need to make your recipe!!!  Email Matt@TheTakedowns.com

CHOCO-GORGE ART BY THE GORGEOUS CHESTER KNEBEL (Augenblick Studios!)

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

It’s going to be January soon!  Get ready to be miserable!!!  But lo!  What the crap is this?! A Soup Takedown!!!?  Ramens and chowders and bisques!  Bouillabaisses and Egg-drops and Mulligatawnies! Split peas and Phos and Posoles!!!!!  Explore the boundaries of the soup universe…  January 17 Noon-2PM at Royal Palms!!!

CALL FOR COOKS!  Email me at Matt@TheTakedowns.com to compete!!!

Want to slurp!??! Tickets HERE!

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

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Boston, the Takedowns are back, and I’m bringing back the classic: The Boston Chili Takedown!!! Pot after pot of the massivest bowls of red that Boston can stew up and dish forth!!!  If you aren’t there, you’ll totally miss it!!!!

WIN Cuisinart stand mixers, Wusthof knives, Anolon pots, and Microplane graters!!!  FREE to compete!!!

January 10, 2-4PM at The Middle East!!!

CALL FOR COOKS – want to cook and compete for hundreds of $$$ in prizes by  Cuisinart, Wusthof, Anolon, Microplane? FREE to enter!  Hit me up at Matt@TheTakedowns.com to enter your best batch of thunderous chili!!!!

Tickets!!! Want to EAT unlimited chili by Boston’s most funnest home cooks?!  Tickets HERE!!!

Bring your own Beano, friends

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New studies have shown that eating cookies is important to do!  I don’t know where I read that- but it was in a book.  Thanks Royal Palms- the perfect venue to trip balls on 30 different varieties of sugar pucks, and chug the finest holiday cocktails!!!  And thank most importantly to NYC’s cookie troops- the home bakers from the happiest part of hell!!!!!!! I luvs you!!!!

1.  Lemon Lavendar Shortbread
2.  Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookie
3.   Chewy Maple Cookies
4.  Spice Alfajores
5.  Campfire Fluffernutters
6. Chewy Rosemary Brown Butter Chocolate Chip
7. Pecan Plastered Pigs
8.  Marcy Mint Sandwich
9.  Hibiscus Strawberry
10.  Raspberry Cheesecake
11. Tart of Seduction
12. Lemon Shortbread
13. Peanutbutter Chocolate Chip
14. Ginger Rum Punch
15. Banana Splitters
16. Moge’s Bliss-Cotti
17. Tipsy Tortoise
18. Tropical Spa Biscotti
19. Maple Latte
20. Sweet Potato Casserole
21. Cam’s Colossal
22. Pecan Sandwich Cookie
24. Spicy Wookie Cookie
26.  Barb’s Maple Bacon Bourbon Snowball
28.  Nutty S’More Cookie
29. Naughty or Nice Cookies by Rose
30. Gingerbread Manspread

People’s Choice

Judges (Buttermilk Bakeshop, One Girl, Sexy Batch)

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR!

It’s the holidays and we all know what that means: Murder! I mean COOKIES!!!!  ONE SERIOUS DAY OF SERIOUS COOKIES!   Come Sunday Dec 13, and feast on endless cookies!  A massive orgy of Brooklyn’s best Cookies!!!!

Brooklyn Cookie Takedown December  13 Noon-2PM at Royal Palms Shuffle Board Club!!!  Cooks! Email me at MAtt@thetakedowns.com !!!!

Want to come eat all the huggy cookies!??!?  Tickets below!!!

Sunday Dec 13 TICKETS HERE

Art by the mind genius Sean Kurt-Russell Sullivan of Augenblick Studios!!!!

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Thanks hujunkously the home cooks of NYC.  Innovators, Geniuses, and Stealers of My Sharpies! I love you all!!!  What a blast was to be had Sunday at Royal Palms- a sea of various reds, two of them veg, even!!!

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Get heavy, Brooklyn.  Be not ye daunted by the ferociousness of the savagery of the carnal brutality of chili hell!  Embrace your satanic impulse to consume this filthy mess, over and over till the End of Days!!!!  25-30 local competitors boil huge cauldrens of toil and trouble- just for you and your lucky tummy!!!!!  Now eat!!!!!!

November 22 12-2PM at Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club!!!  (PLEASE NOTE RESCHEDULE DATE- NOV 22!)

Tickets HERE!!!!

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

CALL FOR COOKS! Email Matt@thetakedowns.com to compete for tons of prizes!!!!!!

Matt Timms presents the Chicago Mac and  Cheeze Takedown – November 8, 1-3PM at Lincoln Hall!!!! Chicago’s home cooking scene collectively roll up their sleeves and commence to smackin!  All the mac and cheeze you can eat and a google plex thunderous hugs!!! Don’t miss this!

TICKETS HERE!

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR!!!!!!  SEE YOU THERE!!!!!

CALL FOR COOKS!  What will you impale!!!?  The Minnesota State Fair is the slaughter pit of your mind!!!!  The presidential candidates will suckle at your teats!!!!  Email me at Matt@thetakedowns.com to enter!!!

Want to eat it all!??! TICKETS HERE!!!

PRIZE SPONSORS:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!