{"id":6930,"date":"2009-09-11T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2013-04-28T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T17:37:02","slug":"brooklyn-cheese-experiment-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/6930\/brooklyn-cheese-experiment-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Cheese Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What:<\/strong> The Brooklyn Cheese Experiment<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Where:<\/strong> The Bell House, Gowanus, Brooklyn<br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>When:<\/strong> Sunday, September 13, 1- 5 p.m., after party, 5-7<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Why:<\/strong> A couple of quirky cook-off gurus are at it again. This time, Theo Peck and Nick Suarez are hosting a cheese cook-off at indie music venue <a title=\"The Bell House review on offManhattan\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/01\/12\/bell-house-brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bell House<\/a>, challenging 25 chef-testants to experiment with a wide gamut of cheese. \u201cCheese is growing more as an artisanal product. We\u2019re moving beyond just American and Cheddar,\u201d said Theo Peck, the events co-organizer. Aged sheep milk, Gouda, Vermont Ayr, drunken Goat, and Tilton will be among the 350 cook-off samples. \u201cYou can\u2019t be into food and not like cheese. I\u2019m hoping someone will come up with an idea that I\u2019ve never thought of or cheese I\u2019ve never heard of,\u201d said Peck.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Bell House will be filled with sweet, savory, and stinky cheeses, as well as home-brewed hops. In tandem, there will be a brew\u2013off specifically for this event. Attending guests along with a beer and cheese judging panel (Andrew Knowlton of <em>Bon App\u00e9tit<\/em> magazine and the brewers of Sixpoint Brewery) will be deciding who\u2019ll walk off with contest glory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe cheese doesn\u2019t have to be expensive to win, it just has to taste good,\u201d said Peck. The chef-testant walking away with contest glory will win about $2,000 worth of prizes, including a ticket to <a title=\"Murray&#039;s Cheese boot camp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.murrayscheese.com\/edu_class.asp?number=CHEESECOURSE09180901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Murray\u2019s Cheese Boot Camp<\/a> valued at $500. Look for the teal ribbons that signify a portion of the proceeds will support ovarian cancer research in honor of Peck&#8217;s girlfriends\u2019 late mother.<\/p>\n<p>After the cheese and beer King or Queen is announced, stick around where post-contest reveling will continue in the front lounge after party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Cost:<\/strong> $20 Advance (includes a Sixpoint Beer), $25 same day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>How to get there: <\/strong><em>Take the F train to Brooklyn. Exit 4th Avenue near 9th street. Walk North on 4th avenue towards 8th street.\u00a0 Turn left on 7th to the address. (The Bell House, 149 7th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn, 718.643.6510, <a title=\"Brooklyn Cheese Experiment\" href=\"http:\/\/thefoodexperiments.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thefoodexperiments.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: The Brooklyn Cheese Experiment Where: The Bell House, Gowanus, Brooklyn When: Sunday, September 13, 1- 5 p.m., after party, 5-7 Why: A couple of quirky cook-off gurus are at it again. This time, Theo Peck and Nick Suarez are hosting a cheese cook-off at indie music venue The Bell House, challenging 25 chef-testants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":15001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,315,314,4,770,752],"tags":[125,269,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-6930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","8":"category-day-trips","9":"category-dining-nightlife","10":"category-events","11":"category-food-drink","12":"category-subway-2","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-party","15":"tag-subway"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":15001,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/4957899944_d2b6af0a9a-300x170.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}