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This was a really fun promo put together by really cool and fun dudes Jesse Hicks and Alessandro a couple weeks ago. I just found the dvd under a mountain of crap so I thought it was worth posting here, because it was a blast shooting this, especially because of all the keg stands. This is the long version, involving a love story between myself and a hot dog, and also taking the idea of “Food Party” extremely literally. Peter Van Hyning plays “gay grapes”, Hot Dog is played by Shawn Lovejoy, who was also Food Party’s makeup artist. Also, please excuse my extremely unflattering and flushed expression at the end. Enjoy! Oh yeah and new episode TONIGHT 11:15!!!
As part of the Sunday School Summer Workshop and Performance Program at Deitch Projects, I, along with a small team from the highly-skilled and talented Food Party crew, will be presenting a live cardboard prop-making demo. You will be able to see first hand our process of making most of our props and sets. We will also be screening some Food Party videos. For all of you who are in New York without access to a cable-subscribed television, this will be a great opportunity to catch up on the episodes that have aired so far!
This will be followed by a performance of BAD BRILLIANCE‘s Red Carpet to Nowhere. People attending the event are encouraged to dress in FORMAL WEAR (ball gowns, tuxedos, little black dresses, basically look hot and expensive) for Bad Brilliance’s red carpet performance. Photographers with bright flashes on their cameras are also heavily encouraged to attend.
This Sunday June 28th !!!!!!!
Starts at 6 pm !!!!!!!!!
Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Drive
Long Island City, NY 11101
212 343 7300
WWW.DEITCH.COM
Also, if you come, you will get to see all the amazing art in the group show that is currently on view, featuring work by all these famous artists :
JIM DRAIN
PAUL CHAN
JEFF KOONS
MARIO GRUBISIC
PAOLA PIVI
GELATIN
SIMON MARTIN
ROBERTO CUOGHI
SCHUYLER MAEHL
Holy shit! I think this is going to be a very good event!
Hello, everyone! This is my first post on Food Party ever, so go easy on me. Here I am in Iceland where I have been for the past year.
I recently went on a trip to Snæfellsnes where there is a tiny fishing village called Stykkisholmer. From here I took a boat around the islands in the fjörd. The boat tour was called the “Unique Adventure Tour” and we saw lots of cute birds and nests including Puffin (which I hear are very tasty), White-Tailed Eagles, Skags, and Eider Ducks. Aside from the variety of bird-life, the highlight of the tour was at the very end when the sailors drop the trawl and comb the seabed for fresh shellfish! Here are the highlights:
Pulling up the net/trawl
The catch
Grumpy sailor opening the scallops
A very confused scallop
The options include raw scallops, crab roe (EGGS!), and sea urchins with white wine to wash it down
Jess (the vegetarian) tries raw scallops for the first time. Mmm….salty!
This Saturday, there is what looks to be an amazing thing happening that I was asked to participate in! It is called HAY QUA! Mini Fest, which brings together young creative Vietnamese people of New York City. “Hay qua” is a superlative that means a variety of things such as “so good!” “so interesting!” “so skilled!”, etc..
I will be on a food panel as an expert, tasting the best Vietnamese sandwiches New York City has to offer. All the speakers are extremely creative, talented, and Vietnamese. It’s an all day event, check it out this Saturday! Here’s the press release:
New York City, NY (June 20, 2009) – The elusive best Vietnamese sandwich, or bánh mì for fanatics, of New York will be within reach on Saturday, June 27th at the Bitter End (Greenwich Village). Some of New York’s top bánh mì creators are entering their wildly-popular masterpieces in the Tasting portion of “Hay Qua!” Mini-fest. The tasting will precede the decadent food-themed panel moderated by Serious Eats’ Tam Ngo, speaking to the likes of Food Party’s Thu Tran, An Nguyen Xuan of BEP, Food Blogger Mindy Lvoff, LUNCH blogger Yen Ha, and An Choi’s Tuan Bui. Audience members will have the chance to savor the passion that goes into each layer, slice, and spread of this new foodie favorite.
Hungry fans can register to taste and judge the bánh mì, amidst the exhilarating line-up of creative Vietnamese American thinkers, dreamers, and champions on The Bitter End stage. Join the room full of bloggers, designers, architects, writers, chefs — wide eyes, smiles, laughter, and that renewed sense of possibility and dreams. It’s going to be a good Saturday.
As with all good things, tickets are going quickly due to popular demand and limited seating. Register today to save your seat, as you won’t want to miss Tim Be Told bandmember Luan Nguyen, French-Vietnamese chef An Nguyen Xuan, Brooklyn Rail publisher Phong Bui, Obama campaign photographer Bao Nguyen, architect Yen Ha of LUNCH blog, filmmakers, singer/songwriters, among many others.
Get our $50 Combo Deal! Hay Qua in the day, KollabNY at night! That’s $25 to listen to over 20+ inspiring AA speakers in the daytime! (fashion consultants, bloggers, environmentalists, architects, publishers, film-makers, spoken word artists and more!) And for another $25, a chance to listen and watch Asian American Talent (singers/songwriters/comedians/hip hop groups/dancers).
Banh mi tasting at Hay Qua + Pink Berry reception @ KollabNY!
What more do you want?!
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Bitter End
147 Bleecker Street
New York, 10012
Saturday, June 27, 2009
from 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM (ET)
I had the honor of being a judge at this past Saturday’s Jello-Mold Competition at the Gowanus Studio Space. It was very exciting, this was my first time being a food judge, so I was careful to inspect each entry very carefully. Check out all these crazy entries::
This was cast from a halved plastic piggy bank. The flavor was nice– lime, chocolate and mint!
This black and white face is based on a character from Star Trek and has an underlying message about racial harmony. It is cast from William Shatner’s face. The flavor is coconut and rum.
This one is supposed to look like a little bird digging for worms. This is cast from tupperware.
This is one of the more experimental ones. The jello is used to replicate shrink wrap. The flavors were savory, pickly, and spicy. Interesting!!
I LOVED this egg carton.
This one was flavored with BEER!!
This one was called “Jello Roe.” It was made to look like giant caviar. There was roe in the jello balls. It tasted wild. And very beautiful!
This one had A LOT going on! It’s a jello cheeseburger with fries. Each color is a different flavor. Most notably, the ground beef is flavored with chocolate, and the tomato jello was very interesting as well!! The lettuce was cast in actual iceberg lettuce leaves! Nice attention to detail!!
Devilled eggs! Very accurate representation! I forgot what these taste like though, oops!
This one had QUITE the epic story behind it. It is about the story of how Vietnamese banh mi traveled on a boat to get to America or Vietnam, I don’t remember actually (nervously pulling my collar!) The forms are made with agar jelly which is a traditional ingredient in Vietnamese molded desserts. The artist had a disaster upon setting up and all that survived is the water and some rice noodle jelly fish. This shit is deep.
This was a very traditional take on jello desserts with different pie recipes. Let me tell you, these were so delicious. I really loved the banana cream one. Arguably the most edible dish at this contest, I would eat any of these slices in its entirety!!
Very interesting chess pieces!! Can you see the checkerboard underneath? Fruit flavored.
This is a boob. It was cast from the jello artist’s own boob. All the flavors were hand-squeezed. If I can remember, it contained watermelon, and peach, and then the inside was flavored with a creamy and smoky lapsang souchong. It was good!
This is cast from a fossil! Nice casting! Loved the white pepper flavoring in the white part!
This one had a really great tart and spicy flavor!!
This one was wild. It casts hollow jello spheres. Just think about it. It’s a spinning and rotating mold powered with a motor.
This one is a tribute to Jasper Johns’ lightbulb. This one also had a great flavor– a sweet creamy jalapeno flavor. Very delicious!
This was such a lovely tableau! Rainbow piano keys, martini glass, devilled eggs, ashtray, dollar bill, black plexi, this one definitely had a very strong jazz bar vibe to it! Very clean presentation!
This one was the ABSINTHE one !! Very strong intense flavor! WHOAA!!
This one was the GRAND PRIZE winner of the Jello-mold competition, and it looked meticulous as hell!! Even the gold parts are edible– it’s made with gold-leafed gum paste. The jello flavors were fruity and clean, and so were their gem castings. Nice Work!!
Sarah Lohman, who works with the Feedbag, and has a great historical food blog, put together this really great video about the event:
It’s on vimeo, click here!!
