TICKETS $15 to come try all that BACON!!!! AVAILABLE HERE!!!!
CALL 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!!!
10 SPOTS OPEN! EMAIL ME TO COMPETE NOW! FREE TO ENTER!!!
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…
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!!!!
JUDGE’S CATEGORY
(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!
Still a few spots left in the SF Lamb Takedown!!! Sign up now and I can get you 15lbs of lamb to work with!!!!! Prizes from Wusthof, Anolon, and Microplane!!!
Man, did we eat a lot of bacon today or WHAT!!!??? Who knew the Twin Cities - hometown to Hormel - would kick so much beehynde? I did! I swear I did! The people are super laid back- but also venemous and cruel with their bacon tricks! We saw it all that day!!! Hormel Black Label Bacon made this thing all possible!!! So glad for the rad and super nice people over there!!!!!
What’s more, I got to meet bacontits.com !!!!! I know!!!!!
August 8th at Noon at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company- the Lamb Takedown blasts into town… 20 different SF cooks cooking 20 different Lamb creations, in deadly competition. Vote on the awesomest food that gets fooded at the Takedown!!!! Check out past Lamb Takedowns here and here! San Francisco will be annihilatedby this, the smartest of all meats!!! Find out about lamb!!!
Cooks! Sign up NOW and I will give you 15lbs of lamb to work with- shoulder, shank, leg or ground! If you can think it, you can lamb it!!! The prizes are sick: only the finest knives from Wusthof, the best pots and pans from Analon, and hell yes Microplane graters!!!
Thanks to the NYC Food Film Festival- all the super sweet staff, and especially to the always brilliant cooks that laid down their lives in the blazing hot sun- for possibly the greatest takedown ever!!!
We all watched a brilliant film It’s Grits! by Stan Woodward, a super nice and awesome gentleman who directed a food classic!!! The judges were super cool to weigh in their super smart opinions: the always fun Rachel Wharton, chill as all hell Jimmy Carbone (Jimmy’s No. 43!), Michael Davis, from BR Guest, and manager of Willdwood Bbq - and the great Stan Woodward himself!!
Here’s the winners!!!
Judges:
Placers won skillets by Anolon, knives by Wusthof, and graters by Microplane!!!
1st Place: #12 Eric Zawacki - Gravlax and Grits! 2nd Place: #13 Merrie Factor - Grandma’s Roasted Red Pepper Coulis Grits! 3rd Place: #4 Lauren Houston and Sean McQueen - Banana Rama Slama!!! Grits!
People’s Choice: 1st Place: #7 Linda Lou - Brazilian Grits! 2nd Place: #19 Lauren Moxey and Kelly Lorent - Jalapeno Cheese Grit Cakes w/ Pulled Pork 3rd Place: #1 Linday Johnston - Dominican Braised Pork with Sweet Potato Grits!!!
Prize sponsors:
AFTER THE JUMP, check out all the awesome recipes!!!!
Woopsies!!!! The Twin Cities get wowed BIG TIME this July 18th, when 20 local mad scientists cook up the least-sane bacon ideas they can brain! Matt Timms’ Twin Cities Bacon Takedown comes to O’Gara’s in St. Paul, 4PM July 18th.
Email Matt Timms to enter! I’ll give you 15lbs of Hormel Black Label Bacon to work with! Bacon Candy bars? Bacon Bloody Mary’s? Bacon Explosions? If you can think it, you can probably eat it.. No idea too redonkulous… So don’t miss this!!! Over $1500 in prizes from Anolon, Wusthof, and Microplane!!!!
$15 to come on down and try all the meat magic! Tickets available at O’Gara’s! Ask at the bar!!! Buy in advance or show up day of!
Matt Timms is on the Food Channel, fittingly, for an episode about FIRE- called Cooking with Fire. The show is called Food(ography) starring Mo Rocca. It’s as good as you think it is. Takedown Champ Melissa Sands, Chef Akiko Morman, and Line Cook/Film Editor Matt Brewster were the competitors in an impromptue “Trash Can Smoker Takedown”. We tansformed trash cans into fully smokey smokers- and I give a brilliant how-to demonstration on air! The show is a wealth of information and I hope you all check it out!!!
Check listings here. It’s playing throughout the week! Find out what channel it is here!
You can check it out at (all times Eastern)
June 8 10PM
June 9 2AM
June 10 8PM
June 11 12AM
June 12 7PM
As part of the NYFFF Press junket (I think that’s what they call it- a junket) Matt Timms was invited to speak and promote the Grits Takedown, June 27 at a culinary Mecca - The James Beard House!! Who ever thought this could happen??! The second he approached the mic, the press went into a mad frenzy, peppering the humble genius with queries about the Takedown! I was like, WHOAH SETTLE DOWN YOU GUYS! I LOVE ME TOO!
The press, wolfing down gourmet snacks to muster strength for their barrage of questions! Some trivia: my vantage point is the shower area, from which JB would shower naked for the world to see!
If I don’t brag and blog about this, it will be as if it never happened… Serious thanks to George Motz and Seth Unger, producers of the New York Food Film Festival, for inviting me to attend.
I quickly sumarize the brilliance of the upcoming Grits Takedown. Jaws were on the FLOOR. Please note JB on the wall, listening if he could. So rad.
me in JB's bedroom (there's mirrors on his ceiling becuz JB could bring the funk like no other) with the super awesome NYFFF poster!
See? Wasn't kidding about the mirrors on the ceiling. Nice one JB...
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There were some winners, but there were no losers. THANKS to 
