Duchess de Bourgogne

And now for something completely different! Duchess de Bourgogne is not from the Western United States, contains almost no noticeable hops, mostly comes in 11.2 fl oz. bottles, and features one of the most neo-classically emo girly portraits we've ever seen on …

Hot Knife Cast: World Exclusive

Hello readers, get ready to become "listeners"! Our latest installment of vegan hangover cooking instructions (featuring vegan Catalan Toast pictured above) comes to you via sight and sound: Introducing the first of, we hope, many podcasts where we toss out …

Beer "Tasting" Strike Out

The jackass comment from one reader two months ago, who called us "cheap whores" in response to us dropping in on a schmoozy beer bloggers reception where we sipped for free, actually broached an interesting subject: Are beer writers, and bloggers, …

The Big DIPA

A number of breweries both known and not are releasing beers whose flavors don't really correspond to their determined class. When you take a sip of Gonzo Imperial Porter, one of the Flying Dog litter, it seems more like a regular west coast style stout …

"Almonds Beet Cheese" Salad

Rest assured, you will never come across a Hot Knives recipe for cashew cheese nachos. That's just not something we're OK with -- fake cheese in general, and nacho cheese especially.

That said, we're sick of being barred from improving upon the now-completely-clich

Deez Nuts

We figured that an assortment of awesome cocktail nuts would be the perfect accompaniment to the end of a huge bike ride, and the beginning of a beer bust. It was a model marriage.

These three nut recipes work extremely well together both in term so of …

La Grand Crew: The Aftertaste

Wow, what a hangover, our blog has a migraine.

The aforementioned La Grand Crew bike & beer tour swooped through L.A. yesterday in an ambitious arc of drunken geekiness. The event was an epic success -- certainly more excellent than even we anticipated -- and …

Rout Route

Here it is: the design of our demise. Don't be intimidated. This ride is going to be an awesome way to waste the day, and then get wasted.

Due to a few blog blitzkriegs that have been pushing our RSVP numbers nearer to 30 riders, we decided to post a few …

"Half the Batali"

After recently cooking up the recipe riffing on Mario Batali for the very generous Daily Candy (an email newsletter resource that apparently every working freelance editor/stay-at-home-mom in Los Angeles reads daily) we received this little joke gift from …

Whiskey Popsicles

What with the upcoming La Grand Crew beer and bicycle outing, and now this recipe, it's shaping up to be unofficial 'Beverage Week' here at Hot Knives. Considering it's the dregs of summer we're fine with that.

A few days ago we set upon making a 4-course …

La Grand Crew '007

For no good reason at all Hot Knives is hosting our first (annual?) bicycle tour of L.A.'s best beer stores on Saturday, August 11. We know we've been eluding to this thing for months, since we first started reviewing our favorite brew purveyors for this site. …

Osteria Not-za

When attempting a dairy-free caprese salad, we're just as repulsed by the idea of coagulating soymilk into savory balls as SoCal's recent super-chef-transplant Mario Batali would be. Instead, we whipped up some white polenta, let it congeal, and ritzed it up …

No Blood, No Babies

Our salad days are in full swing, and to celebrate we revived an eternal standard of the garde manger: the Nis