Bread, Butter, Cheese, Vendor-ing

Lube your gullets folks, because this Saturday is the Grilled Cheese Invitational. And this year Hot Knives will be in full force selling hot slivers of rare cheeses grilled to perfection from a truck! Here’s the gooey plan: we’ll be making three different iconic grilled cheeses and serving each one throughout the day, as we see fit, and for a small price. That mean’s it’s chef’s choice, no ordering! And while we’re one of a dozen impressive vendors this year — we believe our “cheese-forward” classics will win you over. And win us our sixth trophy as part of the brand new “People’s Choice Award!” Details here.
OK. If we lost you at “grilled cheese invitational,” here’s the history lesson:
Our induction to the cult of the grilled cheese came one cold night in the winter of 2006. We came. We shook hands. We ate breast milk-and-marijuana grilled cheese sandwiches while flame throwers toasted bread 10 feet in the air … We conquered — winning two trophies as outsiders to this close-knit friendly contest.
In 2007, we came back and brought along a video camera, hoping to snag the dessert category, or at least some drama.
2008, the festival grew and moved to Griffith Park. We won two more trophies, making us the most decorated competitors in GCI history. And so we retired our spatulas, announcing on KROQ (of all places) that for 2009, we would be giving a lecture on the perfect grilled cheese rather than competing. As luck would have it, we’d also be dethroned by a six-time winner.
Which brings us to the First 8th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational of 2010 taking place this weekend. Look for us in a food truck slinging sliver after golden sliver of molten aged cheese with fruits, strange oils and fermented chili pastes. The truck will be parked on Boylston Street, between the Border Grill Truck and Eric Greenspan, acorss from Campanile. Did we just say that? Wow.
Like the video above? Thank Helena Wei, Amanda Ellis and Michelle Johnson who produce it.