Events!
Recently I received word of a couple of upcoming events that may interest you. First up, an email from Matt Timms, of The Chilli Takedown, announcing a competition on September 19 open to anyone who wants to turn 15 lbs. of free bacon into a culinary delight. Following is the (slightly edited) press release:
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 15lbs of FREE Black Label Bacon each- to create whatever bacon masterpiece they can food up! Email mtimms7@hotmail.com for a spot. Enter to compete for super sweet culinary gear such as Anolon Pots, Wusthof Knives, and Microplane Graters.
Attendees can come on down and STUFF themselves for $15, and vote on their favorite bacon creation. Tickets available soon. Bacon cupcakes, bacon ice cream, bacon tacos, bacon candy bars… expect the unexpectedly amazing…!
The Bacon Takedown is sponsored by Hormel (makers of Black Label Bacon) and a portion of the ticket sales will go to Feeding America. I like bacon as much as the next red-blooded American mannish boy, so this looks interesting.
Next up, my pal Jyl Benson sends along word of the New Orleans Home + Interior Design Show, taking place the weekend of September 17-19. Why am I writing about a home and interior design show on Appetites? BECAUSE I CAN GOD DAMNIT. Also:
A number of chefs will be doing holiday entertaining demonstrations at the New Orleans Interior Design show, a new locally-based show will be held in the Convention Center, September 17-19. The show is produced by Home Builders Association of Greater New Orleans, who also produces the annual New Orleans Home & Garden Show in the Louisiana Superdome each spring. Participating chefs include Brian Landry (Galatoire’s), Chef Tory McPhail (Commander’s Palace), Anthony Spizale (The Rib Room), Justin Ferguson (Stroubes Chop House, BR), Alon Shayla (Domnenica -The Besh Group) and more.
The chefs’ presence at the show is to bring awareness for the Gulf Coast Celebrity Shrimp Boot Raffle: Benefiting Catholic Charities Oil Spill Relief Fund, all money raised in this raffle supports the fishers and their families hurting from the Gulf disaster. Iconic white shrimp boots are being transformed through design and decoration – and then autographed by local and national celebrities. Among the celebrity artist participating: Sean Payton; Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning; Hoda Kotb; Chefs Emeril Lagasse, John Besh, Dook Chase, IV; the chefs and Brennan family members of Commander’s and Café Adelaide; the Broadway casts of Phantom of the Opera, Wicked and South Pacific; Irma Thomas; Irvin Mayfield; Jeremy Davenport; the Zac Brown Band; Sen. Mary Landrieu and Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
Raffle tickets are $5 each, and will be available ahead of the show via a link on the website. During the show, they will be sold at a special booth.
The show runs from noon to 9 p.m. on Friday, September 17; from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, September 18, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, September 18. Tickets are $9 for adults, and members of the military get in for $4.5 with an ID. Obviously the show is geared more towards home building/renovation and interior design, but the culinary aspects are not an oversight, and the shrimp boot raffle looks like a great way to help local fishermen. Who knows, you might come away with a pair of shrimp boots decorated by Hoda Kotb. Hoda Kotb. Hoda Kotb. God I love saying that name.
I hope that one or the other of these events piques your interest. Personally, they had me at Hoda Kotb.
Hoda Kotb.
