Urban Honking

Via Oregon Business: There are now 461 mobile carts registered in Multnomah County, a 25% increase since 2008. Brett Burmeister, editor of FoodcartsPortland.com… In April 2009, she opened Nong’s Khao Man Gai food cart using all of the $10,000 she’d saved since arriving in the U.S. plus $8,000 charged to a credit card. A majority […]

Of all the scandals we’ve studied in our country’s history, this is by far the tangiest. Stone Brewing Co. has sold thousands upon thousands of glass jars of spicy mustards mixed with their delicious beer. Whether stouts, ales, or IPAs, nothing cuts the sting of good mustard powder like beer. But apparently, Stone Brewing’s sub-sub-contractor […]

While some of you were cheering for a team in the big rivalry this weekend (UK vs. USA), we had bigger, better, weirder rivalries to attend to. Like which tropical fruit makes a better pig replacement in stewed pulled pork? Ever since tasting the BBQ “Pork” Sandwich at Hollywood’s Pure Luck (a sandwich we’d like […]

If you’re like us you’ve probably been feeling shitty every time you get in and out of an automobile, what with the evil oil gush that’s still spurting all over our southern coast right now. Make no mistake, we’re complacent. Dirty South indeed. What better reason to prepare for summer barbecues, picnics, and Sunday fish […]

We are lovers of barrels, that which resides within their steel banded darkness is heaven. The aging of beer at our own hands is still just a fumbling hobby; but when done by brewers, it becomes a kind of sorcery. That synergy of time, bacteria, and wood coalesces into flavors and sensations that Hot Knives […]

When we moved west as young men, our idea of a ‘day trip’ was popping LSD in the afternoon and wandering around campus. That changed once we realized the psychedelic grandeur that is the Angeles National Forest, the high woods north of Ojai, the zen cabins on Mt. Wilson, and a dozen other pine and […]

While Korean cuisine may be the new “it” food in America, we’re obsessed with it for the same reason that Koreans are: It fucking rules. Seriously what’s not to love? Hot chilies, fried eggs everywhere, and loads upon loads of various fermented vegetables, namely the über pre-choucroute: Kimchi. This recipe is for a fairly large […]

If hummus is a vegetarian cliché, the grilled Portobello mushroom is a downright crutch. The ultimate ‘wedding meal vegetarian entrée’ let-down! Both veggie and carnivore chefs alike fuck it up: wash it, throw it on a grill for marks, and serve it black and dry, like a mouth full of psilocybin shrooms without the side […]

One of the great culinary inventions is also one of the dumbest vegetarian cliches: hummus or hommos. Either way hummus translates simply to “chick peas,” or garbanzos, the bean from which its typically birthed. An eminent spread that depends on right spicing and good olive oil, and that with a hunk of unleavened bread forms […]

Dessert: Our final frontier. We tend towards immaturity when it comes to the end of the meal. When faced with the option; we typically relegate the dessert plate to cheese, fruit, booze or a combo of all three. We rarely create what could be typified as pastries or confections. A recent brush with the shimmering […]