Urban Honking

Date: August 18, 2009 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Mike and Willow’s house Mike Merrill (MM) Josh Berezin (JB) Jona Bechtolt (Jona) 90/1000: Terminal Gravity ESG JB: Mike, we’ve been drinking this all summer. MM: We were going to call it the “official beer of the summer.” JB: Can we even do that any more? It’s […]

Date: August 18, 2009 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Mike and Willow’s house Mike Merrill (MM) Josh Berezin (JB) Jona Bechtolt (Jona) 90/1000: Terminal Gravity ESG JB: Mike, we’ve been drinking this all summer. MM: We were going to call it the “official beer of the summer.” JB: Can we even do that any more? It’s […]

Type Silver Bullet into your favorite search engine and (awesomely enough) it takes more than a few pages of vibrators, monster fighting advice, and Healthcare freak-outs to get to the Coors website. While the old dogs at Bubble and Fizz somehow haven’t managed to bend the internet to capitalize on perhaps the catchiest of beer […]

Somehow, the summer sun set and a blanket of glittery stars replaced it while we attentively stirred this risotto on the camp stove, and we don’t think we missed a thing. Just look at that great glob! Now we know its asking a lot to of people to be packing the way we do for […]

Yeah. Pine needle juice. And with a little rye whisky… a pine sap-arac. On our recent U.S. National Forest expedition, Hot Knives broke a Golden Rule of camping and broke off a piece of nature to take with us. Relax, it was to make an emerald beverage. And we only snagged a small handful of […]

Well summer is just flying along. Last month, Vin took his first trip to origin with fellow coffee-folk, Skip, Steve, Aleco and Mike. They flew to Colombia and in addition to riding horses to exotic locations, chowing down delicious food, picking coffee cherries off the branch, they also had a chance to see the first […]

We cut our teeth on summer barbecues, so we are super-psyched to make this announcement: For the next two Sundays, Hot Knives will be hosting a vegan BBQ at Verdugo bar in Glassell Park… Vegan BBQ on Sunday Aug. 9 and Sunday Aug. 16 from 2 -7 p.m. …That’s right, short of pouring your drink, […]

As we’ve said before: Living in Los Angeles, we rarely have to worry about summer’s harvest spoiling before we can can preserve the goods for winter. Farmers markets year-round. Aint’ no thing. But that doesn’t mean we don’t habitually crave the brine n’ vinegar sting of a good pickle, not to mention the new dimension […]

The times we resort to getting our vegetables from a plastic bottle are few and far between. Driving at midnight on the I-5 North. Drinking vodka on an airplane… Yep, that’s about it. But we can still admit there’s something wholesome about the notion that you can get all you need for the day from […]

It is gazpacho season. Don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but very few dishes as simple as ‘buy vegetables, blend and chill’ inspire such strong, bossy preferences as this iconic cold soup. (We give props to the oil-laden, paprika-orange smoothie variety over the chunky salsa in a bowl steeze, but hey, that’s just us.) In […]