Forking Tasty

Citifield Chowdown

Last Saturday I went on a mission. The mission was to eat as much as I could inside 2 hours at Citifield, the new Mets stadium. I have to acknowledge a few things before I get into the meat and po….well….this will be mostly meat. First, the inspiration for the mission came from an old high school friend of mine, Chris Inzerillo. He commented on one of my other food images asking when he would see some of the eats from the Mets’ new home. A sucker for a challenge and always wanting to please my friends, I started to sniff around for some tickets. That brings me to the second shout out. It was less than 10 seconds later when Jen, my partner in crime over at Yahoo!, told me she had an extra ticket. I jumped at the chance and the mission’s details were set.

Saturday was a gorgeous 85 degrees and sunny. A perfect day for baseball and food. I got to the stadium a little early to get a jump on the food. Here is what went down…

How to make friends and score ribs

This past Saturday, as I headed to my nephew’s 4th birthday party in LI, I had to make a quick stop in Sheepshead Bay. I know, not quite the most direct route to the north shore of LI, but it had to be done. Think of it as Richard Dryfuss’ mashed potato sculpture and subsequent journey to the space ship in Close Encounters….

SXSW Pigout

Last week I spent some time in Austin at my first SXSW conference. Although it was filled with networking, film, dev geeks and some amazing parties, I am going to focus on the BBQ in this post. In Texas the ‘que is nothing to sniffle at and you can pretty much bank on it being good no matter where you go. That said, there has to be a “best”. Roll up your sleeves and lets dig in…

Hip(ster) BBQ

Stopped into Fette Sau BBQ tonight with Urbanos for a quick hit of BBQ. I finally convinced the distracted, slow, apathetic hipster to put some pork ribs, sausage, wet brisket and baked beans on my tray. He acted as if I pulled him off the street and asked him to get behind the counter, put on an apron and help serve me. I get it. A lot of you fools have other things on your mind. Do me a favor. When you are not painting, creating or being sensational, just do your f-ing job please. Good BBQ. Typical service. (for Billyburg)…