Hot Dawgz!

Tofu Pups suck. Smart Dogs are stupid. With the grill season upon us, those of you suckers for smoke and char are probably wondering to yourself, "How do I make a sweet ass vegan hot dog?" Glad you asked.

A killer dawg (one that can trick a carnivore, cuz …

Hail Seitan

For this sixth month of '07 we've been enrapt in a brutal but amazing ritual of acquisition, fabrication, distribution and finally worship. We rise at ungodly hours, after traversing vague and ungodly markets to concoct beastly succor for earthly...hipsters. …

Wine House

By Guest Knife Mike Meanstreetz

This beer poem is the fourth installment of our on-going love letter to the best booze aisles in L.A. With the extended Hot Knives crew still recovering from a mad dash up to Portland this weekend we, this one is brought to …

Spring Blaze 2007: HK in Portland

Spring is essential; you gotta get refreshed, reborn. But because the seasons have been unnaturally fucked in Los Angeles, where the city's been burning, it's been hard to do here. So, last weekend we decided to celebrate the rites of spring elsewhere, and the …

Bobby Beers' Bloody Mary

by Aubrey "Bobby Beers" White

its purpose. I'd opt for V8 any day. But if you're using a mix, go for spicy and, in my humble opinion, avoid anything with clam juice. If you make it right, you may not even have room for breakfast.

Bobby Beers' Bloody Mary

HK in Portland: The Brunch Recipes

At the risk of over reminiscing, suffice it to say that we do brunch a lot (a lot) and rarely does it turn out as picture perfect as the recent Urban Honking feast in Portland two weeks ago. Diners ranged from small babies in Easter hats to scummy folk punks, …

Carbo-NOT-a

The old-school Romans made the simple pasta dish, carbonara, with three main ingredients: freshly milled black pepper, un-smoked baby pig's cheek and raw egg. We love black pepper, but thought we'd do without the baby pig. We also forewent the standard cheese …

"SFW" Red Chile

This recipe is safe for work.

Every Friday, Evan's co-workers take turns bringing a breakfast spread. We have a list on a bulletin board and an email system whereby you're reminded kindly that it's your week. Also, you are given the option of not participating …

Red Carpet Wine

Our sixth shout-out in a series of shout-outs to standout beer collections in the city of Los Angeles. And next stop on the Great L.A. Beer Run, slated to take place sometime in the next couple weeks.

If you're not familiar with Glendale, CA, some quick …

Extra Special and Bitter

Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut Down Ale

It probably wasn't until late in high school that we really, truly grasped the concept of a paradox -- the most famous of which may be the lie paradox popularly coined as "this sentence is false." It's gnarly …

Zukanna Bread

By Meagan Yellott

There's no better way to complete a weekend than to fill your home-zone full to the brim with the sweet, spicy smells of baking zucchini bread. It caps off that feeling of creative accomplishment, makes the perfect porch-sitting dessert and …

Hot Knives Live!!! Food and Beer to Open

Calling all L.A. mouths,

Hot Knives will be grilling this Sunday, and every other Sunday in June, at an outdoor party series called Summer Camp, hosted by local web-radio station/venue Little Radio. Their warehouse hangar in Downtown's industrial district gets …

Baby Ganoush

We tend to steer clear from the grey sponge that is eggplant, mostly because we think the freaky veggie is unusually over-represented in the vegetarian recipes written by most meat eaters. They're one step away from a portabella mushroom. Which is to say: We …

Sweet Sweat

A while back we posted about the heady nether-region-esque delights of the most over-your-budget fungus, truffles. Recently we got our burn-blistered hands on the cheaper, subtler cousin to the brutally perfumed tubers of the wintertime: T. aestivum.

A …

St. Bernardus Abt 12

If we were skiing down a black diamond hill in the Alps and we hit a tree trunk and blacked out unconscious and woke up buried in a snowdrift with no use of our legs and an aneurysm that was slowly filling our skull with blood, it would all be A-OK if only a

Dad's Little Helper: malt liquor

Happy Fathers Day, dad dudes! It's the only day of the year where your kids won't give you a hard time for finishing the whole Sunday paper on the pot or commandeering the remote control! And you deserve it. But is it weird to have Richard Nixon to thank for …

Beer Blogging Blow-out

Let's cut to the chase, get the niceties outta the way shall we? The Library Bar in L.A.'s Downtown Financial District is one of the few beacons of proper beer culture in our city. If you haven't been, we highly recommend it.

The 7-tap, European draft system …