The SlantShack Crew

from left to right

top: Joshua T. Kace (Founder & President & CEO), Lev Berlin (Chief Operations Analyst), Alexander Baumel (Director of SlantShack Experimental Labs, Food Safety Technician), Christian Capasso (Chief Financial Officer), Douglas Bermingham (Director of Marketing)

bottom: Elizabeth Bullis (Executive Chef and Director of Flavor Engineering), Caryn Epstein (Director of Customer Service, Special Events, and Packaging [temporarily defected to the Southern Hemisphere]), Leah Sandals (Director of Public Relations, Senior Marketing and Strategy Adviser)

SSJ named one of the TOP TEN JERKIES IN AMERICA in August issue of Maxim:
http://www.maxim.com/stuff/products/93919/jerky-boys.html

Lauren Shockey writes about SSJ for The Atlantic's food blog:
http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/07/the-jerky-boys-and-girls...

Thrillist LOVES the SlantShack:
http://www.thrillist.com/eat/slantshack-jerky

BNET on the customization craze, featuring SSJ
http://www.bnet.com/blog/entrepreneurs/young-entrepreneurs-love-co-creat...

SlantShack's been getting a lot of love from the press recently...check out a few recent stories:

Where it all began - SlantShack Jerky in New York Magazine:
http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/63401/

SlantShack Jerky on Mashable, as an example of the customization craze:
http://mashable.com/2010/05/02/customized-products/

Company profile in the Village Voice:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/archives/2010/06/slantshack_...

And a shout out for our most excellent launch party from same:

Slantshack...

JERKY!

From the insides of the faces of those who brought you a way to build your own god damn beef jerky comes a whole assortment of jerky related and unrelated strokes of genius.

Think the beatles with like four more beatles in the band.

Think tornadoes that tear the roof off your head, not your house.

Think Conan as the Master of Ceremonies at your birthday party starring the fully animated cast of Ratatouille.

Think gravity with double the gravitas.

Think Willie Wonka's chocolate factory tour led by Gene Wilder and $5,000 escorts in lieu of Oompa Loompas.

More to come...

It feels a little strange writing this journal entry, knowing that nobody will ever read this, but, well, if the professor says I have to do it, I guess I have to do it.

I'm not really sure what to write, so I guess I'll start by introducing myself and explaining why I'm writing this in the first place: My name is Edward. Today is my first day working as a lab assistant at the SlantShack Jerky Experimental Laboratories. I'll be working the graveyard shift here, running a couple of the ongoing jerky experiments, and generally cleaning up after the day shift. The day-shift staff consists mostly of graduate students of the professor, who come out to the lab to do research as part of their dissertation.

November 9th, 1989

East Berlin

Cyborg Hitler has amassed a small army of undead Nazi werewolves on the East side of the Berlin wall, and is preparing to launch a worldwide assault using millions of Zombie Nazi soldiers that were buried around the world in the past (time travel was involved, but we won't get into details/logistics).

Jerk McGurk, you fiend
life has lost all its flavor
since your wild rubdown

come along with me
Smoky Sanche's Dusty Trail
awaits our wet mouths

with bags of REDRUB
Jack Torrence survives the night
in Overlook maze

On June 30th, 2010, hundreds of people flowed through the doors of Brooklyn Fireproof East to enjoy handfuls, mouthfuls, and beer-mouths full of jerky; and there was much rejoicing.

I won't bore you with the heroics that made the night possible. No, really, I'm not going to. Seriously, I've got-- fine.

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