Watch What You Eat: NYC Food Film Festival

Okay, okay, you can file this one under "technically not in Park Slope."  BUT, if you can get your lazy asses on the train and go a few stops up to DUMBO, you'll be in for a treat.

The fourth annual NYC Food Film Festival features an array of short films that are food-centric.  On tap for this year, we have Smokes & Ears, a doc about how good a pig ear sandwich can be (what?!), The Perfect Oyster, where a guy waxes poetic about—you guessed it—the perfect oyster, and many more.  THEN, they've got food events where you can eat some of the things you saw on-screen. 

Genius, right?

There are a few events happening throughout Manhattan (including the unfortunately named oyster bash, "Suck 'n' Shuck"), but check out the sick events happening right here in Brooklyn.

Food Truck Drive-In (Saturday, 6/26): From noon to 10PM right underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, the NYC Food Film Festival will host (supposedly) the world's first food truck drive-in.  We're talking Wafels & Dinges, Rickshaw Dumplings, Sweet Treats, Eddie's Pizza, and many, many more.  It's free to attend, you just pay for whatever food you want.  A giant conglomoration of idling trucks all parked for the special convenience of my fat ass to nosh on?  Mass pollution never sounded so delicious.

It's Grits! (Sunday, 6/27): Want some down-home slop?  Look no further than It's Grits!  Taking place in the Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO, they're offering up over 30 different takes on the Southern specialty from local chefs, as well as drinks dreamed up by on-site mixologists.  The bash starts at 12PM on Sunday.  Buy your tickets here in advance for $35, or $45 at the door.     

Brooklyn Burger 'n' Beer Garden (Sunday, 6/27):  I'm personally the most excited about this one, mainly because I'm a boozehound and I love red meat.  At 6PM on Sunday, the NYCFFF has special screening of Beer Wars, a doc about corporate beer companies and the tiny, microbreweries that go up against them (I'm guessing that Butternut Honeycomb Douchebag Stout doesn't sell as much as, say, the Silver Bullet), followed by an all-you-can-eat burger and beer bash held in the Tobacco Warehouse.  Pat La Frieda burgers, specialty cocktails, and local brews will be served up—it's $45 in advance, $55 at the door.        

Oh man, I can't wait.  My stomach is growling and my liver is crying, as per usual.

Who's in?