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This is a little love note to all the dumpster diving, freegan, gray water using kids out there, doing their stinky shameless best to use up all of the crap businesses throw out everyday. This takes a special sort of diligence and commitment to ideals to proudly and prosperously live off of other peoples less than perfect garbage. And it takes balls to have a bake sale, and make all of the pastries out of dumpster dived food..
but it takes extra big balls to make dumpster dived pastries in the shape of cat shit, and laugh and take peoples money in exchange for them.
The recipe for these is just a chocolate no bake cookie, rolled into a log shape, and then rolled in granulated sugar. Besides being delicious , these prove that basically anything can be a turd if it’s brown and you roll it into a log shape. These were a lovely treat after a night of videos and beer, and all of the proceeds went to Odd Obsessions Video, which is an independently owned video store that operates like a co-op, being run almost entirely by volunteers, and specializing in weird, out of print , and cult favorites. Check them out today!
FREE!!!
TUESDAY April 13th from 7-10 pm
Santos Party House
96 Lafayette Street, NYC
Special Performances by friends of Food Party:
Today is Thu Tran’s Birthday!!!!! Happy Birthday Thu!
Last night to celebrate Thu’s birthday we went to Fette Sau and ate our body weight in meat. After that we rolled over to Santos Party House to catch SHONEN KNIFE!! Here is a video I took on my phone [it's totally crappy].
Miho Hatori [from Cibo Matto and Gorillaz] and her new band opened up. They are called NEW OPTIMISM and the one and only Bad Brilliance got up onstage and danced with Miho and her hot male revue. Check it out!
Here is the cutest video from Shonen Knife’s new album, Super Group! Have a good birthday THU!
This week Shawn the BF and I went to support my pal Melissa from Pastries Not Potatoes in the 4ourth installment of Iron Cupcake: Chicago!
sugar sculptures
first a bit of history: Iron cupcake is a fun time. It is headed up by Colleen of Beautiful Cakes who put the whole thing together. But there is a whole bunch of bakers and chefs who have been doing the “cupcake as a genre” thing for a while. The contest was actually started in Milwaukee by the Milwaukee Cupcake Queen and her pal when they decided to challenge each other to a bakers duel. The gauntlet was thrown by the pal then known as the Unknown Baker; as is covered here on the blog prehumously named No One Puts Cupcake In a Corner. Things started when said baker presented the Queen with a Marlboro Cowboy Coffee Cream Cupcake With Starbucks liquor chaser. So rowdy! This dude steeped tobacco and then made a batter with it. So then the heat was on, and iron Cupcake Milwaukee was born, then Iron Cupcake: Earth, then spin offs including Iron Cupcake :Chicago.
The challenges so far:
Iron cupcake Chicago has been ramping up. The first challenges were pretty tame, including citrus and something else. But the last two themes were actually interesting because of the open-end-ed-ness of them. Savory, which provided the obligatory bacon cupcakes. and most recently candy. This is the one i attended.
Ok! Let me start by saying all of the cupcakes were very tasty, but some were better than others, AND only two of the contestants were actual chefs, most of these ladies were just badass moms and grandmoms looking for kicks and bragging rights.
Entries included, M&M’s (which were sort of boring),
Mounds (which were definitely boring)
Candy corn which was good, but had a strange aftertaste not unlike eating actual candy corn.
there were two snickers entries… and like highlander their can be only one, and it was true!
snickers2
actually the lady with the superior snickers called them SINkers, and they involved a hollow cupcake, filled with snickers filling, and topped with a ring of caramel creme. these ROCKED US.
One of Melissa’s entries was cany dots cupcakes, which were flat pieces of fondant topped with piped candy dots. I really enjoyed this. However, similar to the actual candy dots of yore, this was fun to eat, but not terribly tasty to eat. Mostly because of the fondant,because fondant tastes gross.
In the end, Melissa and the SINkers tied for best presentation, and the SINkers rightly won for best taste. It was really no contest on that front.
here is melissa right before the crowning.
mel and mom
BYE until next time!!
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!
