About
The Great Hot Dog Cookoff started as a modest, friendly, cooking competition for Kara Masi and her friends 5 years ago. 50 people hanging out around the grill in year one grew to 100 the next year, and 175 the next. After three years of running the hot dog cookoffs out of Kara Masi‘s backyard, we upgraded to the headquarters of lead sponsor, Kelso Brewery, in Clinton Hill in 2009 and brought on co-organizers Jennie Gustafson and Melissa Sands. We’ll be doing it up again at the Brewery for the 2010 5th Annual Cookoff. This culinary competition and fundraiser has raised over $8,000 to date for local charities including City Harvest, BARC Animal Shelter and the Food Bank of New York City. This year alone, we’re aiming to raise another $8,000 with the help of 300 hungry guests, 20 teams of fierce amateur chefs, and great line-up of generous sponsors and volunteers.
This Year’s Event
Saturday, July 31
2:00 – 6:00pm
Kelso Brewery, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$35/ticket
Reviews, Musings, Photos and Video from previous Hot Dog Cookoffs
About This Year’s Beneficiary: City Harvest
City Harvest, a non-profit organization founded in 1982, is the world’s first and New York City’s only food rescue program. Now serving New York City for more than 25 years, City Harvest is dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women, and children. This year, City Harvest will collect 26 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to more than 600 community food programs throughout New York City using a fleet of trucks and bikes as well as volunteers on foot. Each week, City Harvest helps over 260,000 hungry New Yorkers find their next meal.
About This Year’s Lead Sponsor: Kelso Brewery
Brooklyn based brewery, Kelso Brewery, is hosting this year’s cookoff for the second year. They’ve been a proud sponsor of the cookoff for the past three years and are great supporters of many local organizations helping to improve the community. They brew a great selections of beers that you can find at a bar near you. Check out kelsoofbrooklyn.com for more information.
About Cookoff Organizer: Kara Masi, Ted & Amy Supper Club
Kara Masi, of Ted & Amy Supper Club, is a proud sponsor of this year’s hot dog cookoff. Come join cookoff organizer/home-cook Kara, your neighbors, your friends, and a bunch of strangers for dinner at her place. Twice a month Ted & Amy Supper Club prepares a meal and hosts dinner for 12 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Menus are posted online a week or two before each dinner. Reserve your seat by booking it on the site. Dinners usually have a suggested donation which covers a home-cooked three-course meal and a few glasses of wine. Sounds like fun, right? Tell your friends, add yourself to the mailing list.
About Cookoff Organizer: Melissa Sands, Fork This
Fork This is a blog about food, drinks and taking life by the fork! Includes recipes, commentary and photos from one girl’s culinary exploration in her kitchen and around NYC.
About Cookoff Organizer: Jennie Gustafson
A lover of music, movies, sewing, bike riding, baking, crafting, adventures, and food, Jennie has been calling her favorite borough (Brooklyn) home for the past three years. Her daily grind to downtown Manhattan to make a living doesn’t deter her from frequent laughter!
