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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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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!!!

Buy tickets and get info here!

See you all down there! This will be the funnest lamb blast ever- August 8th at Thirsty Bear- at noon!

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 [...]

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Still a few spots left to enter!!! Email me and I can get you 15lbs of lamb to work with!!!!  Compete for super sweet prizes!!!

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August 8th at Noon at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company- the Lamb Takedown blasts into town… 20 different SF cooks cooking 20 different [...]

video by Beth Cochran at FoodiesLive.com!

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 [...]

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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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]