Urban Honking

Last year, our friend Joel moved to Berlin. We expected him to quickly burrow into to the city’s party circuit and be appointed the American diplomat to Berlin’s hottest clubs. We did NOT expect him to become a line-cook at one. Lo and behold, our former roomie and ex-bandmate is slaving at the haute, German [...]

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’ new marketing wizard (Sarah) decided to send us a packet of frankinsense, myrrh and the [...]

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 others is the crack of snacks: Cool Ranch. Ranch is nasty. In a good way. [...]

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 – where no falafel exists – we reached for the fry oil. Our one-night restaurant [...]

“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” -Alexander Graham Bell While I do put my pants on one leg at a time, I start my day a little different than most people. If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, then a KmikeyM SuperSmoothie™ is the most important food the world [...]

There are at least 400 ways to roast a chicken. Most of those recipes are great. I’m adding this one to the mix. It’s pretty standard and simple, and it works like a charm. This weekend, my father came to visit. He keeps kosher, and my kitchen is not kosher by orthodox standards. I decided [...]

I’m obsessed with fruit and vegetable breads. Think: banana, zucchini, pumpkin, and so on. I’ve been wanting to try apple bread for awhile. On a recent Sunday, I found that the apples I purchased for this purpose were total crap. Instead, I noticed the two lovely pears I had also recently purchased. I decided to [...]

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 herb-balls tucked into drippy bread from a late-night cart, stand or window in every most [...]

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 (really, at all times, right now too) every day, yet it rarely shows up in [...]

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 latte cupcakes. You too? For good reason, the first week in this foul new year [...]