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A Popular Culinary Competition Is Coming to Bushwick this Sunday

The Brooklyn-based cooking competition with an almost cult-like following, will take place this Sunday at Lot45 in Bushwick.

By Rachel Baron

March 21, 2019 · 4 min read

Food & Drink

A Popular Culinary Competition Is Coming to Bushwick this Sunday

The Brooklyn-based cooking competition with an almost cult-like following, will take place this Sunday at Lot45 in Bushwick.

Rachel Baron March 21, 2019Mar 21, 2019 · 4 min read

March’s installment of the Takedowns, the Brooklyn-based cooking competition with an almost cult-like following, will take place this Sunday at Lot45 in Bushwick. This month’s ingredient is chocolate.

The Takedowns are the scrappy, madcap brainchild of Matt Timms, a Bushwick-based actor, artist, and filmmaker who was dubbed “the czar of amateur cook-offs” by Phoenix New Times . Though chili…

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