YOUR TIME IS NIGH. Austin Bacon Takedown, Part Deux!!! Last year was amazing. This year will be even more insaner!!!! Austin bacon cooks- raise your swords! We attack March 13 3PM at Emo’s !!!!

20 of the happiest local cooks will take bacon and transform it into the winningest of possible creations. Remember last year? We saw bacon tacos, cupcakes, caramels, Bloody Mary’s and other stuff too!... [read more]

YOUR TIME IS NIGH. Austin Bacon Takedown, Part Deux!!! Last year was amazing. This year will be even more insaner!!!! Austin bacon cooks- raise your swords! We attack March 13 3PM at Emo’s !!!!

20 of the happiest local cooks will take bacon and transform it into the winningest of possible creations. Remember last year? We saw bacon tacos, cupcakes, caramels, Bloody Mary’s and other stuff too! YOUR job is to show up, eat everything, and VOTE on the finest culinary invention. Tickets are $10.

There’s a judge’s catagory and a People’s Choice category! Hey you guys, guess who the judges are? Only Hilah Johnson from award-winning HilahCooking.com !!!! Not only does she have her own cooking show, but she won last year’s Austin BTD!!! And guess who else? Is judging? Austin food writer Claudia Alarcon!!! She blogs at cuisinexplorers.com, and writes for Austin Chronicle and Austin Woman!!!! Yes!

Email Matt Timms (chilitakedown@gmail.com) to enter! Hormel Black Label Bacon will once again be sponsoring, and so I can give you 15lbs of the finest Hormel Black Label Bacon to work with!!! Brain up a sweet or savory dish of brilliance… the prizes are doper than ever: Cookware from Analon, Wusthof, Microplane, Le Creuset, Edgeware, and Chicago Metallic! AND a year’s supply of Hormel Black Label Bacon!!! Far out!!!

See you all super soon… I’m very pumped about another seriously serious food party!!!!