LA Weekly’s Squid Ink has a fascinating look inside one of our head chef’s favorite carrying cases. Most chefs place their knives in a standard metal case, but not our Jet Tila. No way! Instead, Jet learned about Jonny “Coffin” Edwards and his company Coffin Case, which creates coffin-shaped guitar cases for rockers and other anti-establishment characters.
Since Jet is a rockstar of the culinary world, it makes sense he would forgo the standard knife cases and instead go with one of Jonny’s signature creations as you see above.
As Jet explained to LA Weekly’s Daina Beth Solomon, “I got tired of using toolkits…I needed something to show my personality.” Have Jet’s peers in the culinary world noticed? .“Big Time.”
You can read the entire article here and to learn more about Coffin Cases, check this out.
If you’re still mourning the loss of chef Evan Kleiman’s Angeli Cafe (who isn’t?), you can sample her food again at The Charleston on Monday, May 7, with two seatings at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The KCRW Good Food host will prepare a four-course rustic Italian meal, served family-style. “Everyday I get emails from customers asking me to make Angeli food and bring it to them,” says Kleiman, “It’s pretty funny, like I should now run Angeli like a cottage industry from my house. Well, that’s not going to happen, but the pop-up allows me and my staff to reunite and make food we love and of course to see customer friends we miss and give them a fleeting taste.”