Dallas Observer columnist, mother, wife, and carnivore, Alice Laussade, and her husband, Mike, hosted their first version of Meatfight several years ago in their backyard. Sunday, their third installment of the event that pits teams of chefs against each other in a quest to smoke, grill, or braise the best brisket, ribs, sausage, or salmon, raised $50,000 for National MS Society. The sold-out event took place at Four Corners Brewery in Trinity Groves and everybody who is anybody was there. I only know because Laussade sent me a Dropbox link to 300 photographs.
The participating chefs and team members are listed below. Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman was a celebrity judge along with The BBQ Snob (Daniel Vaughn), The BBQ Sage (Jack Perkins), The BBQ Sloth (Will Fleischman), the BBQ Stud (Tim Byres), and The BBQ Star (Justin Fourton), just to name a few.
The weiners, I mean winners:
Brisket: Brian C. Luscher
Ribs: Cody Sharp
Sausage: Nathan Tate
Wild Card (Salmon): Tiffany Derry
Team Winner: Notorious P.I.G. (captained by Derry)
“Nick Offerman judged a beard competition for us, and he picked up some meat tongs to comb through people’s beards,” Laussade says. “I have a video of him talking about the item he donated to the auction, if you’re interested in that. Quality’s not great, but he does mention his three testicles.” Other highlights and a few pictures below.
Chad Houser crawled inside a hot smoker at one point, as it was malfunctioning.
A guy showed up in a Super Pig costume because I dared him to on Twitter the night before the party. The spandex was more real in person than I had ever thought it could be.
And we made trading cards of each of the fighting chefs. Brian C. Luscher attached.
Teams:
Meattallica
Brian C. Luscher, Luscher’s Post Oak Red Hots (brisket)
Jeana Johnson, Mot Hai Ba
Jeff Bekavac, Neighborhood Services
Omar Flores, Driftwood
Cool Arrows
Chad Houser, Cafe Momentum
David Uygur, Lucia
Jeffery C. Hobbs
Anastacia Quinones, Komali
Notorious P.I.G. (winning team)
Tiffany Derry, TiffanyDerry.com (smoked salmon)
Nathan Tate, Boulevardier (sausage)
Eric Dreyer, Fearing’s
Cody Sharp, Nick & Sam’s Steakhouse (ribs)
