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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Chow Burning Beast Tickets on Sale Tomorrow

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:42 AM

The Stranger
The 2011 Beast, Burning

A carnivorous little bird says the link to buy tickets to Burning Beast—the world's funnest, most delicious, meatiest feast in a field, cooked by Seattle's best chefs, happening on Sunday, July 15th—will be posted on Facebook at 9 a.m. tomorrow. They tend to sell out fast.

Organizer Tamara Murphy (Terra Plata) has hand-picked the all-star cast of barbecuers, and while this is not 100% confirmed, it appears that these people (among lots of others) are on board:

· the newly James-Beard-awarded Matt Dillon (Sitka & Spruce, the Corson Building)
· the Creole-food-truck king Matt Lewis (Where Ya At Matt)
· the boar's-head-on-the-wall Charles Walpole (Blind Pig Bistro)
· the marvelous Quillisascut Farm's Karen Jurgensen
· the awesomely named Russ Flint (Rain Shadow Meats)
· the fantastic-pasta-and-meat maker Mike Easton (Il Corvo)

Let's just say it—a lot of food events are terrible, especially big ones that cost a bunch of money with herds of people lining up to get little plates of food. But Burning Beast is not in an awful conference room with terrible lighting—it's at the very lovely Smoke Farm, out in the country an hour north of Seattle, where (god willing) it will be hot and sunny, and there is a river to swim in. Also, the roster of chefs is consistently outstanding, and the plates of food tend to be actually too big (pacing is key).

It is just really delicious and really fun (even when it rains).

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Let's change Seattle's locks when these rednecks are all in Marysville for the weekend.

Posted by raku on May 24, 2012 at 12:05 PM

@ 1, ha ha! This is no redneck-a-thon, you vegan sonofabitch.

Posted by Matt from Denver on May 24, 2012 at 12:14 PM

@1 my neck ain't red it's mocha chocolatta ya ya baby and any event that promises to serve everything from the rooter to the tooter is one i'll be all up in.
ain't gonna be nothing left but oink, moo, cock a doodle doo, meow, and bow wow. when i get through.

Posted by reverend dr dj riz on May 24, 2012 at 12:19 PM

Not my cup of meat, but as long as people are enjoying themselves, then whatever.

Posted by Joe Glibmoron on May 24, 2012 at 12:41 PM

#3: Huh? You're going to kill pigs, cows, roosters, cats, and dogs at this event? WA state law says you can only commit animal abuse on certain species, FYI.

We need to send city cops to this event, I'm sure other laws are being ignored as well (bestiality, meth, etc.)

Posted by raku on May 24, 2012 at 1:38 PM

@5:

Right, because the venue is only about 60 miles outside SPD's jurisdiction, you ignorant herbivore.

BTW, how many innocent plants did you kill today?

Posted by COMTE

on May 24, 2012 at 2:14 PM

@5: You know, actual 'rednecks' die in coal mines while trying to harvest the resources needed to build the machine you're using to accuse everyone who behaves differently from you as being a 'redneck'. But that's enough steps removed for you to sleep at night, so no biggie, huh?

Posted by Ziggity on May 24, 2012 at 2:51 PM

#7: Sorry for the confusion, I was using the modern use of "redneck": someone who acts in an uncivilized, inappropriate manner due to backwards and immoral traditions (eg, racists, homophobes, animal abusers, misogynists).

Posted by raku on May 24, 2012 at 3:11 PM

@8.. and here i was thinking 'redneck' meant white people.

Posted by reverend dr dj riz on May 24, 2012 at 3:20 PM

@1 - I was raised by rednecks, and they don't tend to vist NW specialty food events, you self-righteous twat.

Posted by deerwhistle on May 24, 2012 at 3:21 PM

9/10- Ok, I apologize for the continuing confusion. I retract my original use of the word "rednecks" and am truly sorry, I didn't mean to offend white people or miners. You may replace with the word "douchebags", "sociopaths", or "assholes".

Posted by raku on May 24, 2012 at 3:28 PM

Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification.

Posted by deerwhistle on May 24, 2012 at 3:44 PM

@11 still..i'm sure you can insult these people you disagree with with more precision than ' douchebaggery, sociopathy, assholiness, animal fucking, and crystal abuse'
try harder

Posted by reverend dr dj riz on May 24, 2012 at 3:55 PM

I'm sad that there was only one vegan troll in this thread.

Posted by care bear on May 24, 2012 at 4:16 PM

@11: You don't know what the word "sociopath" means.

Posted by Vegan Superiority Complex on May 24, 2012 at 4:16 PM

I'm a recovering vegan, so I might count!

Posted by deerwhistle on May 24, 2012 at 4:26 PM

@7,

Doesn't the term "redneck" refer to the sunburn typically found on people who work outside, i.e. farmers? Seems like coal miners don't fit that definition.

Posted by keshmeshi on May 24, 2012 at 4:47 PM

@17:

I believe the etymology of "redneck" has progressed to encompass any lower middle-class person who typically performs relatively unskilled manual labor in a predominantly rural setting.

"Vegan" likewise has come to denote any self-righteous prick who believes their personal dietary choices make them somehow moorally superior to others, even when they continue to engage in roughly 90% of the same sorts of practices that despoil the planet as everybody else.

Posted by COMTE

on May 24, 2012 at 6:33 PM

dumb comments, great event!

Posted by danceofdays on May 25, 2012 at 5:19 PM