Author Archives: Hot Knives

We’ve received gifts from breweries a precious few times in our blogging (and now booking) career, and getting a free case of ales from Founders Brewing Company felt like winning some kind of holy lottery. After purchasing Salad Daze, Founders’ … Continue reading →

It’s Raw Week here at Hot Knives, you know like the Discovery channel’s “Shark Week.” We dusted off the Dehydrator and started soaking legumes like weirdos. But even our inner Hippy is a snack freak. And one substance above all … Continue reading →

Some people, when they’re let down by the food all around them, they go on Yelp and moan about it. Why not get even? When we felt hunger pangs for a late-night falafel sandwich in our corner of Los Angeles … Continue reading →

Falafel sandwiches. As perfect a street food as you’re likely to find; a time-tested vegetarian staple for people of the Levant and drunk guys alike. New York’s got it. So does Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. You can buy freshly fried … Continue reading →

We clearly show a great preference to cooking with alcohol over our second favorite drug, caffiene, and its carrier, coffee. This is a perplexing fact because we imbibe coffee over beer in overly unfair ratios. We drink coffee all day … Continue reading →

Lodged somewhere deep in our pink fleshy cavities sit the remnants of our holiday partying: sugar, stuffing, gravy, fresh truffles, chocolates bobbing in a sea of buttered rum, and a regretful amount of palm-oil-agave frosting from a batch of pumpkin … Continue reading →

So what are you doing for the Holidaze? Visiting the ‘rents? Cooking for your own family of Urban-Orphans? Party hopping from an ugly sweater face-off to some wicked Nogathon before you hit an awkward secret Santa swap-meet? Don’t fret pets: … Continue reading →

You’re sick again? Us too! We’re pretty sure it’s an avian death bug, which the science blogs tell us has been carried from birds to humans through ferrets. We feed colds and we feed the flu, doctors can go fuck … Continue reading →

We’re no strangers to the 6-hour Thanksgiving dinner, as you know from our digestive musings from year to year. But this fall we’re answering the cries of those less fortunate who either have to work on Thanksgiving, or sit behind … Continue reading →

Our ‘Grapevine Dolma’ recipe started as a salad special we once whipped up before dinner service; it became a slightly weird blog post recipe; it morphed into a different book recipe – and it continues to evolve still (we badly … Continue reading →