Panic at the Brooklyn Botanic!

TD Signage!!! - pic by Katie and Anne

Here’s an update from the day’s Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Takedown carnage:

surveying the happy line of feeders - pic by K Feola and Anne's crew

Contestants brung it. Of course they brung it. This time I invited 6 past winners from takedowns to invent their own [...]

NY Times double fist pump!

The Tofu Takedown got two blasts of recognition from the Grey Lady! (That is slang for the biggest paper of the whole wide world the NY Times, dudes.)  OMG, remember all you naysayers who said tofu stinks and no way will this work and Matt Timms what are you even thinking, have fun with that [...]

Soy Toys and Tofu Mamas mingle at Takedown

photo by Joey Shemuel / Metromix

Thank you to all the 17 cooks who showed up with barrels of tofu food, each one a warrior vying for Takedown Glory! Thank you  Highline Ballroom!!!

photo by Joey Shemuel / Metromix

This takedown was amazing- definitely favoring the sweet over the savory- definitely savoring the badass over the [...]

Tofu Takedown!!! Finally!!!!

You begged for it!!! For too long, vegetarians have been unhappily doggy paddling  in a sea of comfort food. NO MORE.The most audacious takedown to date features TOFU, meat of the soy gods.  Some may interpret this as a smack in the porky face of the previous bacon takedown!!! All it is, is another takedown!!! [...]

Takedown supports helping people!

On March 7-8th, (International Women’s Day) in New York, Women Restaurants Owners Support a Remarkable Nonprofit’s Scholarship Fund

(New York, NY) — On March 7-8, (Saturday and Sunday) New York women-owned restaurants and women chefs will celebrate International Women’s Day, (Sunday March 8th), by recognizing a remarkable non-profit organization, the Women’s Education Project (WEP). On these [...]

Can you eat 20 cookies and live?

You had to be there.  If you were, you may never forget that not-so-fresh feeling after eating 20 different cookies. All the beautiful people came out December 13th to The Soft Spot and shared their cookies with throngs of weirdos. Highlights included Sugar cookies with whiskey whipped cream, “Hazelnut Love Bites”, and the award-winning “Christmas [...]

Cookie Takedown at the Soft Spot

Matt Timms reporting for duty! First order of business- MC a COOKIE TAKEDOWN at The Soft Spot Bar - 128 Bedford Ave (L train to Bedford) December 13th at 4PM.  Only the finest amateur bakers may enter! We want to see what you guyses cookies are made of, people! Free to enter your cookies (bake [...]